Good(?) old days...
I installed Slackware some time after SLS ceased to exist, and I got tired of rebuilding gcc and libc from the sources. I vaguely recall being a little grumpy about those fancy colour (cyan?) installation screens.
Eventually becoming a sucker for fancy cutting edge desktop environments, I jumped ship when Slackware dropped Gnome when it became dependent on dbus (if memory serves), and Patrick refused to succumb. In retrospect, he was probably right: it was dbus that paved the way for systemd. We still used Slackware on the servers in production at least until 2007 when I left that company, and they probably continued to use it for a while after that. Maybe even until now.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
