
For almost a week now, I've been using
Slackware 9.1 (RC-1 released
today), and I am having a blast. Slackware doesn't have more than 6-8% of the Linux market these days, but it used to be one of the most-used distros back in the day. Today, many think of Slackware as a true classic, a thought that is often accompanied by a feeling that Slackware is not a user-friendly or an uber-modern Linux distribution. There is some truth in that statement, but there is always the big "But". Read on for our very positive experience with Slackware 9.1-pre.
Update: In less than 24 hours since the RC-1, Slackware 9.1 RC-2
is out.
SuSE is and never was a fork of slackware. In the early nineties SuSE sold translated slackware disc's. After that, they used Jurix as the base for their distro and pretty soon they had their own non-forked distro.