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Chatting With An Early Slackware Developer | David Cantrell

May 16, 2026 · 1 h 58 min

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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.


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