@volkerdi happy birthday and strong health wishes. I have started with your distribution installed from pack of floppy discs which has been brought at #CVUT #CVUTFEL dormitories at #SiliconHill in 1993. We have used Slackware even for all our following instruments development at PiKRON. Lot done at #DOSBOX and #FreeDOS at that time when we used 8051 based MCUs with Intel DOS assembler tools as well as to run EDA tools. The latter, my colleague implemented PEDA and I have bought Motorola 68332 kit from my own savings and switched to own GCC cross-compiler build and participated in related BDM debugging project. So we could switch to native GNU/Linux tools. Following developed 68376 based MARS 8 systems serve to our students till today. We have never need to use #Microsoft #Windows (3, NT, …) for our embedded systems development and I have developed even Windows drivers (port of uLAN developed for Linux kernel the first) for unfortunate hostages of that systems on DDK under Wine for decades.
Linux ecosystems is too complex now, so we have switched to #Debian based distros, but #Slackware elegance and time when I have know and recognize may be all packages in my system have bright impress in my memory and I would use it for something with less dependencies again. Thanks again, Pavel.