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12 May 2011, 2:31 pm

Anwhere I could download Slackware 8.2 or 9.2?
The one form 2003, I downloaded it from somewhere back in 2003 and I loved that distro.
Anyone know where I can download it again?

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12 May 2011, 3:16 pm

Check the various mirrors. I seem to recall last I downloaded that there were a couple mirrors that had all versions released. I usually download from Canadian mirrors.

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12 May 2011, 3:17 pm

Probably not such good idea to go back that far.
I see the current version is 13.37 and there must have been many improvements made since 2003.

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12 May 2011, 4:52 pm

Cornflake wrote:

Probably not such good idea to go back that far.
I see the current version is 13.37 and there must have been many improvements made since 2003.

It would run well on a low spec laptop I own, plus I do like using Slackware.

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12 May 2011, 4:57 pm

That may backfire.
Doubtless some of the many improvements made since 2003 would include better support for laptops which are likely to be more proprietary and not quite so straightforward as desktop PCs using well-known motherboards and chippery.

Most modern Linux distributions are pretty free and easy in what you get to actually install on a machine; you're in control of it and can trim it down as much as you want.
Is there something about the current Slackware 13.37 release that would cause problems?

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12 May 2011, 5:26 pm

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Well for one thing, I want the KDE 3.2 interface (I love that interface) And im assuming if I try to install KDE 3.2 on a more modern distro, there would be more problems?

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This is probably blaspheming to Linux users... But...
How do I download a folder in FTP with WGET? Its a public FTP server.
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12 May 2011, 5:35 pm

-r

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12 May 2011, 5:47 pm

kc8ufv wrote:

-r

Aha! You would think so, but this does not work..... *Five Minuets Later* Oh it suddenly works after 4 tries.
Thanks anyway. I tried -r before I asked the question and it did not work. But now it works.

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12 May 2011, 5:55 pm

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Well for one thing, I want the KDE 3.2 interface (I love that interface) And im assuming if I try to install KDE 3.2 on a more modern distro, there would be more problems?

I think that's very likely to break more than it fixes. :lol:

You'd also miss out on a pile of KDE bug fixes and improvements.

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12 May 2011, 6:26 pm

Cornflake wrote:

Madbones wrote:

Well for one thing, I want the KDE 3.2 interface (I love that interface) And im assuming if I try to install KDE 3.2 on a more modern distro, there would be more problems?

I think that's very likely to break more than it fixes. :lol:

You'd also miss out on a pile of KDE bug fixes and improvements.

Very true XD.
Well. Is there a way to make it look like KDE 3?
Because I cannot change the background of the taskbar with an image or anything like that.
Sorry if this seems nooby, but I have only been using Kubuntu for 2 months, and I have not been on it much.

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12 May 2011, 6:37 pm

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Is there a way to make it look like KDE 3?

Oh, I wouldn't be surprised - and apparently you're not alone.
Some food for thought:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16397/li ... ktop_lives
http://yoush.homelinux.org:8079/tech/tr ... kde3-alive
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=65652

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12 May 2011, 7:05 pm

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Madbones wrote:

Is there a way to make it look like KDE 3?

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12 May 2011, 7:12 pm

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Thank you so much!

You're welcome.

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13 May 2011, 11:50 pm

You could check out the Trinity project, which is a fork that attempts to maintain the old KDE3.5 codebase. It works reasonably well in Debian, dunno if it's available for Slackware.

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03 Nov 2011, 12:19 pm

One more thought, might try Slax. It's a Slackware derived distribution, primarily designed as a live-cd distribution, but I had an issue putting Slackware on my netbook, due to the limited size of it's SSD. Slax worked without a problem.

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