And Slackware too puts out a test release. Patrick writes in the changelog: "OK, we're going to call this Slackware 12.1-rc1, though there is still some more minor work to do." So there. Just so you know.
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Member since:2006-12-05
Same here. I love Slack's philosophy, and although I never really settled with raw Slackware (I don't really want to go without dependency checking), it's one of the two distros I respect the most (the other being Debian). I've been using Zenwalk for... well, as long as I've not been using Windows XP, which has been a couple years by now.
Member since:2006-10-08
Same here, too. Slackware was my first step into PC's Linux / UNIX world. Allthough I knew a few bits about UNIX generals from the P8000 and PSU, Slackware was a great experience which taught me many things. It was back in the days of kernel 2.0.32 - Slackware 3.4, if read it correctly (approx. 1995) - when I bought "Sybex POWER!-CD LINUX" 2 CD version for 29,95 DM. This system invited me to use LaTeX for my school stuff - and the concept not to rely on some strange "wizards", frontends and automation tools for some of the the complex system operations. "Only insist on what you've checked by yourself!" could be a famous slogan from those days. And no matter which Linux and UNIX I tried later on, the lessons from my Slackware times were an important help. Concepts, commands and procedures are almost unique, no matter which Linux or UNIX you use. (Okay, I admit, that's not the full truth. There are differences, some of them may even be a deep impact into things you're sure you know. But all the basic stuff helps you to understand and to follow other kinds of system installations.)
Sadly, now that I've moved from Linux to UNIX, I rarely try or use Linux systems. Maybe I should put together a system and give "old friend" Slackware a new try. Let's see if I can still handle it. :-)
Edited 2008-04-04 22:46 UTC
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2005-07-14
I agree. You get absolut control of your OS plus is a rock solid distro. I tried Zenwalk too and it is awesome too.
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