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Linux.com: Review: Slackware Goes to 11

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“Slackware Linux 11 was released at the beginning of this month,
which marks 13 years of continued development. Slackware Linux,
while not the first Linux distribution, is the oldest surviving
one, and is starting to show signs of aging.

“The first version of Slackware Linux was released on July 16,
1993, by Patrick Volkerding. Slack was based on the Softlanding
Linux System distro, and was designed to be installed from 3.5-inch
diskettes in software ‘series…'”

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