Jess

Oof. I am pretty sure it was Mandrake in 97. I bounced around trying what was around before settling on Gentoo for a decade plus. Then both my laptop and desktop got too long in the tooth to make distcc even worthwhile and migrated to Arch. I figured it was the closest distro to Gentoo that I wouldn’t have too many problems. I don’t know howong it’s been now, but I’m an Arch fangirl. I’ve installed it many times since on work computers as well. For remote systems though, it’s always Debian stable.

That’s just the way things were done back then. Slack has been around long enough that that’s just the way it is.

I figured, I was playing on the number of github repos with instructions for curl pipe bash combos.

Maybe one you could just download and pipe to bash. /s