No POSTS!!!! Slackware is the best distro ever

[Guest]

:)

 

Oldest distro around ? yes.

 

Best distro around ? Oh yes.

 

Most misunderstood distro around? Hell yes.

 

Give it a try - you might find it quite surprising.

[Oroshi]

I didn't have any chance to try out the Slackware. but one day i will!!! :)

[grep420]

slack is for people that like to think they are "leet"

[deraj]

personally, I think slackware is lame. If you want something that bare bones, you should go for one of the BSD's. The package management there isn't terrible like Slack's ....

[grep420]

agreed

[Lem0]

There's something to be said for making tasks harder so you have more of a challenge, though. It's called masochism.

[Guest]

hmmm... slack difficult to install/use? No way!

 

Okay, I am a linux noob, I've used Mandrake 9.0 and Knoppix (brilliant distro!), and then I decided to install Slackware 9.1 on an old Toshiba laptop. I had no problems at all... even the PCMCIA network card and infra-red port is working. I was really put off by things I heard but I had no problems.

Still haven't found my perfect distro yet, maybe because of too much M$ OS abuse ;) So I mainly use 98se, XP and Knoppix-STD every so often.

[grep420]

noone said it was difficult to install or use, its just more of a pain in the ass to administrate. If you were not a Noob you would know that.

[hijinks]

I use slackware on my desktop at home and I'd even go as far as putting it into production.9.1 has come a long way since like 4. With swaret and slapt (slackware port of apt) the package upgrades are fairly easy.

 

I even upgraded a 8.0 -> 9.1 using swaret

[neurosis]

:) 

Oldest distro around ? yes.

 

Best distro around ? Oh yes.

 

Most misunderstood distro around? Hell yes.

 

Give it a try - you might find it quite surprising.

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