Slackware back in '05 to '09 stopped for a whIle and i just got back Into it. Currently distro hopping the BSDs and fiddling with gentoo, and Guix, trying to set up A reproducible system that doesnt use systemd and offers good wine and vm support with an Openbsd firewall/router and nas setup.
Whoa, I used Slackware for basically that same time frame (IBM --- not Lenovo --- ThinkPad 600e, which was pretty ancient even at the time). Good stuff!