I happened to be reading Chapter 1 of the Slackware Book this morning and
section 1.2 states that on July 17, 1993, P.V. released Slackware (I saw
recently in this NG that July 16, 1993 was the release). I started with
Slackware 3.0 in September 1996 and a month or so later picked up a
Slackware '96 CD set. I cut my Linux teeth on Slack and in '99 was drawn
to try Debian which I have run since.

Lately, I've wanted to do some development in as pure Linux system as I knew
and I put 10.2 on my laptop (Thinkpad T23) and have been enjoying Slack
again for the past week or so. I have to say that KDE works very well and
seems much lighter on resources in Slack than Debian (not a flame, just a
seat-of-the-pants observation).

So, to P.V., the developers, and everyone involved with Slackware over the
years, Happy Birthday!

- Nate >>