The last version of Slackware to use the 1.2 kernel, and the first with binaries in ELF format instead of a.out.
KVM acceleration works well and the extra speed of hardware virtualisation is welcome. The emulated vga device should be cirrus, and the newest emulated network adapter that I get to work is ne2k_isa. Getting the network adapter to work required me to build a custom kernel, none of the provided kernels worked. My kernel config file can be found here, and the kernel image here (md5).
Slackware 3.0 doesn't have a DHCP client, so IP addresses should be configured manually. The defaults with user mode networking in Qemu are 10.0.2.15 for the local machine, the gateway is 10.0.2.2 and the nameserver is 10.0.2.3
The driver should be clgd5436 (it's for a slightly earlier Cirrus Logic adapter than the emulated one, but the driver works). A copy of my XF86Config can be found here.
Slackware 3.0 doesn't come with a graphical web browser, but does come with Lynx. As it to be expected, doing anything on the web is very limited. Even telnet is very hit-and-miss, it can connect to some servers but not others. legacy.sdf.org works though. :-)
Slackware 3.0 login screen
a very plain fvwm
No graphical web browser is provided, but prebuilt Netscape binaries are available from https://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php, I've chosen Netscape 1.1.2 as a contemporary version here.
SDF's homepage works, but very few websites work, even among those few very basic websites left
Domain name resolution doesn't work properly with subdomains, going to my site actually returns that of another SDF user http://a.ernest.sdf.org
Even Slackware's website doesn't work
Nor does 68k.news
And even acme.com is beyond Netscape 1.1.2
Still, there's always telnet
Which means SDF is an option :-)
Lynx also has problems with the same websites that Netscape does, so I wonder whether some of the problems lie deeper in the networking stack of such an old OS.
