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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> Now, I'm not sure how to take the fact that Slackware 9.1 did not get compared with Windows XP like all the other distros do.
I will tell you how. The key for this is this sentence on the review: "It is a distro which doesn't have to "pretend" about anything."
The distros you are mentioning, like Red Hat Linux or Mandrake or SuSE are going against Microsoft users. They have specific usage pattern targets. Slackware does not have these targets. Slackware is not for newbies and normal users. Slackware is the Unix in Linux. I do not *expect* Slackware's copy/paste to work better than XP. I do not expect Slackware to offer me better UI usability than XP or OSX. I expect less from Slackware because Slackware itself hasn't set unrealistic goals like the other distros have. And this is why it's being reviewed as such. If you read reviews of mine for QNX or Syllable I don't expect them to replace XP any time soon. I am not saying that slackware is as bad as quality-wise as hobby OS Syllable, but I do say that it has different goals and goes after a very specific userbase.