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"Sorry but I still don't get it. Why these packages and tools cannot be provide as add-on to Slackware? For example with a CD that will provide additional tools and drivers, and a "setup" to install everything on top of an existing installation of Slackware 9."

Face it. Slackware is our base so we like it. On the other hand is not the desktop distribution for the average user. How can you put in a separate CD a new installer ? Wow great idea. After you install slackware you put in our cd with another installer, another desktop manager...other packages..removing server packages..

wait. Isn't this a different distro ? I mean a new installer builded from scratch (sure not perfect yet, but at least we didn't copy and pasted some other code) a totally different set of packages etc.

Furthermore linux it's about options. 'As Linus Torvalds stated in a TV interview the reason he started Linux is to make the OS market as varied as the car manufacturing market...'

"Over time Slackware will evolve. Will CollegeLinux follow that evolution or completely diverge, creating yet another obscure distribution that is barely compatible with anything else."

CL is fully compatible with slackware. We are a very active project as you can see in our forum. I appreciate this might not be a sufficient guarantee for you, but so far, with over 10,000 downloads in 2 weeks and some positive feedback we are happy.

There are a lot of distributions out there (www.distrowatch.com) why you are so negative about new distributions?

If you are happy with your current distribution why bother?

Why Mandrake is a different project and they didn't provided additional packages for redhat? afterall mandrake is based on redhat?