I'm not that old of a linux user, I think Slack may have been the second distro that I tried in probably 2000 after starting on Mandrake
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Same here. Mandrake 8.2 was a buggy mess, but I have fond memories of it.
First distro I ever used. Downloaded it from a BBS onto about 40 floppies. Fun times.
I was just going to post the same thing. I actually split downloading duties with a friend of mine when we both had 1 (or maybe 2?) hr / day on our ISPs.
We even used coloured floppies to colour code the package sets.
great distro.
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