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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Eugina, thanks for this review. Slackware is a true Linux distro, not a wanna-be-wanna-change-linux-to-Mac-or-Windows distro. I often felt than osnews concentrated to much on the commercial distros and neglected the distros that make Linux, Linux, or the community distros. I also see a little bias for binary distros. But that is understandable. This is certainly a welcome change. :-)
It would be wonderful if you could do a review of Gentoo. If you like Slackware, you'd fall in love with Gentoo. I wouldn't use anything but Slack until I met Gentoo. Or even a comparison of source based ***community**** distros will be a real treat.
I feel source based distros are ahead of their time. As CPUs become more powerful and moore' Law continues to be validated, I see a shift from binary distros to source based distros even withing corporations.
But all in all, this is a welcome change. I was really getting sick of the SUSE, Red Hat, JDS, Mandrake, etc, reviews. In my opinion, all of those commercial distros are a **BIG** dissappointment. It's so bad, I see no reason to use them over the community distros.
To all of you, Slackware is on of the distros that make Linux, Linux. They exist not for your money. They exist because they think you deserve to use your computer the way you wish, and to make free software better.