Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 4th Dec 2003 04:42 UTC
My husband hooked me up on Slackware almost three months ago (he used to run Slackware in the '90s). While I use a large range of OSes on a daily basis, when I am under Linux I now prefer to use Slackware. This is my mini-article with thoughts on Slackware 9.1 after using it for three months on and off. Ten screenshots are included.
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The first distro i ever tried was Slack7. It didn't work. I gave up on linux for about a year, and then started using RH8 and Mandrak9 which I like about equally, but when Slack9.1 had the balls to put Gnome2.4 in practically the same week it was released, I had to try it. Not only have I stuck with it, I have given it 90% of my HD to it (winXP gets 10GB for wine). In slack, everything works the way the software developers intended. It's easy to drop in standard kernels, and there isn't a barrage of softlinks giving a hundred ways to do the same thing. If you want to really learn linux I highly suggest Slack. It can be challenging, but rarely frustrating, and ALWAYS rewarding. I feel bad for RH guys who won't install something that doesn't come on RPM.
The one major change I made to the fresh install was Grub. I just like being able to have a splash image on the bootloader ;-). I'd like to see future slacks use Grub, it's way more advanced than Lilo.