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Alien Bob, attitude, Eric Hameleers, Linux, nickname, Nocturnal Slacker, Patrick Volkerding, Slackware, Unix
How I Got My Nickname
What exactly is a “nocturnal slacker”? Is it some late night lazy slob who hangs out and posts baloney like this online?
Umm… well, could be. However, that’s really not the origin of the nickname. The “nocturnal” part of my nickname is due to the fact that I actually am a serious night owl. The nick was given to me years ago by the biker community. The “slacker” part isn’t indicative of my laziness; although, I do suffer from that affliction occasionally. A “slacker” in Linux-land is someone who uses the Slackware Linux distribution.
What’s Slackware? Well, that’s what I’m here to talk to you a bit about tonight. Slackware Linux is the oldest, continuously maintained GNU/Linux distribution. Slackware was created by a young man by the name of Patrick Volkerding back in 1993. Slackware prides itself on being the most “unix-like” GNU/Linux distribution. Its stability is absolutely legendary in the Linux community. It’s simplicity is a thing of beauty.
Alas! Slackware is not for everyone. New Linux Explorers would curl their eyebrow hair just looking at Slack’s text-based installer. I once read an Eric Hameleers (AKA Alien Bob) quote about Slackware in a Linux Magazine interview. He said, “Slackware assumes you are smart! This appeals to people.” That is true… and COOL! People often have heard me state that Slackware is the only GNU/Linux distribution that comes complete with ATTITUDE. It takes a special brand of whacked geek to love Slackware.
Now you know how I became the…
Until next time…
~Eric
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This article originally published on my Nocturnal Slacker | Lockergnome blog. To read it there along with the original comments, click HERE.
I thought it was because you were all days late at night hacking your Slackware powered PC
HAHA! Well, that may have been part of it.