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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>>was that if i was going to bother to go from redhat to something like slackware (a huge leap)....why not just go to freebsd?
The same question could be reversed, and I see no compelling reason to try FBSD. I used Slackware before switching over to Gentoo and had tried FBSD, but out of the 3 machines I put BSD on I always had a piece of hardware that just wouldn't work and saw no real advantages of using it.
I haven't tried out any of the new package managers for Slackware, but that was the reason I left Slackware and someone really needs to compare these new package managers to Gentoos portage. I assume common software is easy to get with the pacakge managers, but what about uncommon/very beta/non-GPL packages. Portage is great for stuff like winex, or getting the nvidia drivers to install on the 2.6 kernel, or getting wolfenstein enemy territory real quick, but....
I really really hate 90% of the way Gentoo works...Gentoo's init system makes me want to vomit, half the time I try to install it it fails somewhere trying to compile kde or doesn't even make it past the boot strap, the install is too complex to easily memorize....grrrrr If slackware had a portage equivalant I could finally have an alternative to Gentoo