I've been using Slack since 8.1 came out. Okay not a long time.

What I like about it is that it always installs. ALWAYS. I've had problems with just about every other distro I've tried (mandrake, red hat, and debian (I'm just not smart enough to get that to install)) Lycoris is a close second in always installing.

Yesterday, I switched from KDE to XFCE. I like it so much better. Everything seems faster in it. If you haven't tried it give it a shot.

Same with me I guess as far as Slack seems to always install no matter what. Lately I've tried installing RH 8.0 & MDK 9.0 and both gave me kernel panic errors. Guess what, good ole Slack 8.0 installs without any fuss!

My first taste of Linux was using Caldera's Openlinux 1.2 with kernel 2.0.30 and it was nice, this was around '98...then I tried RH 6.2, didn't like it. Then I tried MDK 8.0, it was pretty kool but as time went I kept hearing about Slackware, but may be hard for newbies and such. So I made my mind up and tried out Slack 8.0 and have been using it every since.

Once you use Slack, you neva go back!!!

Yeah, Slack will install on about anything. My Fujitsu was the first time I ever had a problem. But that was easily solved by replacing bare.i and usb.i with patched kernels (compiling the images using the provided config) and then burning a new iso. I don't think I would want to try that with other distros.

Slack is easier to tune everything to exactly how you want it too... It is the middle level of functionality "good enough for now" that Mandrake & Redhat excels at which I can never seem to get to on Slack. So it takes longer for me to set-up everything the way I want but once I am done I am much happier with the end result.

The same can be said of LFS and Gentoo BTW, but I can not bring myself to trust them for a production server environment.

I've used mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 for about 1,5 year, and i liked it. but I needed some more challenge so I got myself slackware 8.1.
so far, I like slackware the most.

I use Slack cause It's simple and to the point. Yeeeaah!!

Oh and YES ..... My name is Purpleburple and I am a Slackaholic.
<room> hello Purple! .....

First I went RedHat, then Slackware, then Mandrake, Debian, Suse, a couple LFSs, FreeBSD, then back to Slackware. After 6 months of redhat my server went to Slack and has never looked back, but it took about 2 years to switch the entirety of the house... expect for the Sparc in the corner running OpenBSD. I put most of A and AP on a Compact Flash card once. I've got a spare emergency Slack harddrive lying around. I scoff at the RedHat and Mandrake users for their cotton candy GUIs and installers. I call the Debian users communists.

My name is Finegan and I'm a Slackaholic.

Cheers,

Finny

Slack 8.0 is the only distro I've had. When I was getting ready to try Linux I read some reviews at Distro Watch and when Slack was the only one that said configuration was by editing text files I knew which distro I wanted. ( I liked AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS from DOS and the .ini files from 3.11)

I've been using slack since 1995.. slack 3.0 I think it was. On the Infomagic "Linux Developers Toolkit" or something. (Before RedHat existed I might say - <sarcasm>'RedHat is the original!'</sarcasm>)

Having been intro'd to Unix by DEC Ultrix at uni, I think the BSD feel that slack has, has kept me feeling comfy the entire time. The fact that they also try to make their distro like a commercial unix, and not a windows replacement does good things for me.

That said, I still use windows on my PC (I've run slack as my desktop for a period of 3 or 4 months - a couple of times, but it's not ready for my uses, yet ). But my PC is the only computer I have running windows. Everything else is slack. I've even had sparcs and alphas running slack

Maybe I'll move to Slack on my desktop permenantly one day.

tifkat

Slackware was the distro I tried first, because it is what we run exclusively on our linux machines at the office. This was back in the 3.x days I think? Anyway, it ran great on my machine, and I learned a lot setting it up. But I always saw all these other distros claiming special features, huge amounts of auto configuration. I decided to move on and try other things.

After about 6 months I noticed Mandrake had some cool new features. I switch over and after about 3 hours of scratching my head when the things that are suppose to "just work" kept breaking and my computer was chugging along like a turtle with a broken leg I ditched Mandrake.

Next I tried Suse. Same thing happened, there YAST system came out and failed to configure hardware that I had working perfectly under Slackware. When I tried to do it manually it seamed to make all there auto stuff unstable. Out went Suse.

Next came Redhat. I had the absolute worst luck with that. Everything, and I mean everything, was running super slow. It had problems with my sound card (as did Suse and Mandrake) and couldn't do anything with my printer that was remotely worth while. Finally after having X crash on me more times then I can count it got the boot.

After that I decided to give Slackware another run. It took me a little bit longer to setup then the other three, but once it was setup it worked. All my hardware worked. Everything just plain worked. Ya, I had to configure some things in text files. Ya, I had to recompile the kernel. However, applications didn't crash. Things didn't seam unreasonably slow. All was good. Since then the only time I have redone my system was to put a new version of Slackware on. I current run slackware-current (up to date up to December 10, 2002 currently) and it runs great. There is the occasional bug in KDE but I am running KDE3.1RC5 from the extra directory.

Not to say Redhat, Suse, and Mandrake are all crap. They aren't. And certainly a lot of great development goes on inside those distributions. I just found a lot of the software was so cutting edge it wasn't well tested and it caused me problems and headaches. I always understand the layout of Slackware so much better since that is what I was "broken in" with.

During the time I also have had Debian running on a second system and I have had more or less good luck with that, but I am often unsatisfied with the number of things that break every time I to an upgrade.

I started using Slackware somewhere around 2.0.0, long time ago. After that I used many different distro's and other operating systems like the BSDs, but like the standard quote I always come back.

I used to use Slackware in the past. It was the 4.0 one. I used it for about 1 1/2 year. What I liked ? It wasn't bloated with things you don't want to be installed, the config files were clean... I really liked it and I've learned a lot with it. At this time, I had no Internet connection... And then it came, the ADSL... A friend of mine told me about the great package manager : dpkg and it's front-end , apt. I've tried it, and never went back ... But I think I will go back to Slackware when the 9.0 will be released... I really miss the Slackware.

I've been a Slackware user for some years now. First started with RedHat, but that was dropped after a few weeks of trying, cursing etc etc... Since then, I started out with Slackware 3.4 (which was the latest Slackware at the time) and never abandoned it. The reason? Full power, very fast, easier to install than any other distro, full control, and pretty small

If I'm a Slackaholic?

Well I think I going to be! Everything I read until now enspires me more and more. I really like to read the things posted here. I think Slackware is a OS which can really be configured how you want it (that's what I found out reading on the NET). I used SUSE before for I want to switch over but changing things isn't easy there.

I've already made plans to first install my computer and then my laptop. I can't wait to resume my installation. Reading these forums also gave me an idea. I'm going to maintain a website with exact what I do and did, as well as my hw configurations and stuff sothat it will be easier to do research where it went wrong.

So a slackaholic? I'm going to be one...

Started with Mandrake 8.1, then Slackware 8.1. I think I've found my distro of choice. I learned more in the first 4 days with Slack than I did with 2 months of Mandrake. I got Slack so I could really get my hands dirty and learn Linux. Since getting Slack, I've done things with computers I've never done before. For instance:

I completely got rid of Windows
I took two computers completely apart (empty metal frames for cases--parts all over the place)
I took the best parts of both computers and built my own computer
I installed a second hard drive just for fun
I upgraded some RAM
I learned how to set up some basic security for my system (firewall is next)
etc...

After obsessing over my computer for a month or two and losing a lot of sleep (well I'm still doing that), I can honestly say that yes, I'm a Slackaholic. I can't seem to get enough of it. I like to learn, and Slackware has made me learn more about my computers and computers in general, than any other operating system. I don't think I'll ever quit learning...and I hope I don't.

I started using Linux with a RH 5.1 that came on the inside cover of a Que book. I had tried to get into FreeBSD, but FreeBSD was fairly young and hard to configure for newbies at the time. After a while of reading Linux books and fighting RH 5.1, I decided to try RH 6.2. Needless to say, I didn't like it. Then my ex-boss purchased a boxed version of Mandrake 8 and he gave me a copy of it. I installed it, looked around, but didn't like it. Couldn't put my finger on it as to why I didn't like it, tho! I started frequenting Linux forums and IRC channels and that's when I heard its name: Slackware. So I decided to download an ISO image, burned it to a blank CD, and from then on all I use is Slackware. I was learning lots of new things with Slackware, yet something inside me wanted to know more about makes up a Linux distribution. That's when I gave LFS a try. From building LFS, I learned lots of more stuff. Still, all I use is Slackware.