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David Cantrell discusses the early days of the Slackware project and its significance in the Linux community.

Today we have David Cantrell on the podcast, one of the authors of the Slackware book and one of the early developers from the Slackware project to talk about what things were like back then before Slackware became the oldest surviving Linux and longest running distro. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson ==========Guest Links========== Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com/ Slackware: http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware Book: http://www.slackbook.org/ ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson =========Video Platforms========== 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBq5p-xOla8xhnrbhu8AIAg =========Audio Release========= 🎵 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/149fd51c/podcast/rss 🎵 Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-over-tea/id1501727953 🎵 Spotify…

People in this episode

Host: Brodie Robertson

Guest: David Cantrell

Topics covered

• Slackware
• Linux
• open source
• software development
• technology history

Keywords

• Slackware
• Linux
• David Cantrell
• open source
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Slackware, Red Hat

Books & works: Slackware book

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