Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 28th Oct 2006 08:06 UTC, submitted by anonGPLv3supporter
"Slackware is one of the oldest (arguably *the* oldest) Linux distributions still around today. It is the pet project of one Patrick Volkerding who, love him or hate him, has ruled his distribution with an iron fist since the beginning. This is fine if you agree with his choices, but like all dictators, Patrick doesn't always make decisions based on the good of the populace, but rather sheer unmitigated ego. Here is my experience with his latest iteration, Slackware 11." More here.
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RE[4]: What's with all the Slackware bashing?
by hitest on Sat 28th Oct 2006 15:41
in reply to "RE[3]: What's with all the Slackware bashing?"
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Well-said. I also like FreeBSD 6.1, and find the installation routines of FreeBSD and Slackware to be easy to use, simple. If you can read the ample, well-written support documentation provided by Slackware then you can install 11.0. I like the fact that Slackware system functions can be controlled by editing text files. A shiny GUI eats up gobs of RAM and is not needed to set-up a system.
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2005-09-10
I know, that's why I like it. Even though you have to do configuration manually, it is easier to do so than with other distroes. Arch is the closest thing to FreeBSD in the linux world as far as development philosophy goes... even package management resembles FreeBSD's a lot: free~ has ports and packages, while arch has AUR - which is similar to ports - and pacman. Both systems handle dependencies very well, and there is a seamless integration between binary and source installation systems. Slackware is a second favorite
Although most would think that FreeBSD users favour gentoo (because of portage), in my experience, many FreeBSD users prefer slackware (this is based on the posts I saw on bsdforums).
Edited 2006-10-28 15:34