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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I like slack. I'm posting this from a derivative, Vector. Swaret is decent management. It occasionally breaks packages, xmms and gaim to name a couple, and it's not quite as polished as some managers. Usually doing a swaret reinstall will fix the package. It was pretty easy to upgrade KDE, etc, with swaret. I also tried slapt-get but didn't seem to work well on my system.
Arch, mentioned above, is nice too. The packages are i686 optimized and pacman is powerful manager. Arch will require more tweaking than say Vector or Slack. I had to load several modules, and ended up adding hotplug to fix a couple of things.
As far as autodetection of hardware I was impressed with slack. SuSE sometimes screws up resolution of monitor, Slack always gets it right. I did have to add an append to lilo for the cdrw, and symlink for dvd.
Debian is also fine distro, but I hate the outdated packages. I may try unstable or testing in the future, but stable kind of sucks for daily desktop. For someone looking to venture beyond fedora/suse, slackware or debian is a good choice. And vector is nice intermediate choice, as it adds several config tools and has an easy installer.