57 years ago on October 20, 1966, Patrick Volkerding was born.
Volkerding is best known as the founder and creator of Slackware, one of the earliest Linux distributions.

Slackware, introduced in 1993, quickly gained recognition for its simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. While other Linux distributions embraced modern package management systems, Slackware maintained a more traditional approach

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@SinclairSpeccy Happy birthday, @volkerdi!

Thank you for dedicating more than half of your life to making us slackers less grumpy when using our computers.

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