I always remember the 2.4 releases as 'multimedia' bound. Xawtv/Alevt and TVTime, XMMS with MP3 support thru PLF/packman or 'non-free' repos, Xine vs MPlayer battles, Wine being able to run Max Payne and Deus Ex at native speeds...

I've installed full Slackware 3.0 off floppy disks back when it was new. Good memories.

> On the 26th of March in 2005, Volkerding announced that GNOME was removed from Slackware current and turned over to the community to support and to distribute. This had been under consideration for a few years as community efforts had been “more complete” than Slackware’s included GNOME distribution.

I 'member using GARNOME to build it on Slackware 10: https://web.archive.org/web/20051225020929/http://www.gnome..../