Hi Guys

I am a new guy to linux. I started with ubuntu. then i tried kubuntu and i liked kde. But since i faced many problems with Kubuntu 8.10 i was looking for a stable operating systems. after some reading i came to know that debian and slackware are the most stable linux. but reading about slackware made me a little scared and at the same time wow about this os. since i was scared that this distro isn't newbie friendly i switched to debian which was the parent of ubuntu. i liked debian very much. but on the same time i kept reading about slackware. then one day i gained my strength and downloaded slackware 12.2. and installed the distro after some reading. and i successfully installed it. as a triple boot with windows xp debian and slackware.

to my astonishment i have been using slackware ever since. i didnt turn back to debian. and only some times to xp. now i am compltetly using slackware. it is a great distro. although i faced many difficulties on my way slacking. it was fun and more learning than any other distro

Slackware rocks

i just creaaated this blog so that every one can share their views on slackware.

Sean

These threads tend to degenerate pretty quickly into "My distro is better than your distro..." pointless circular arguments so don't be too discouraged if you don't get that many responses. That said, I'm glad you've found slackware to your tastes. You're not alone in that.

Oh, And welcome to LQ!

Welcome to LQ, seangregory:-)
Agreed. Slackware rocks. Like you I used a number of distros (Suse, Debian, Red Hat, FreeBSD, NetBSD, to name but a few) before Slackware became my primary OS. Currently I run 4 Slackware boxes.....I've also got a spare one in the basement.

I don't think you'll find much opposition here, seangregory.

I've also gone through a few distros, just recently even. OpenSuSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, PC-BSD. I tried Slackware first sometime around when I had first heard of Linux, which was about the time of Windows ME, Fedora Core 3 (first one I tried), and Slackware still using the 2.4 kernel. Even though I could never get everything working (especially sound and X), Slackware just left an impression on me.
Now, I'd say that the impression I had was how great it felt once it ran pretty much how you want. There's just something magical about compiling from source and installing it yourself that most package managers seem to take away.

This is clever.....

Go to the Slackware forum and post a message that says: "I like Slackware."

Only someone in flame-retardant clothes will dare to disagree with you....

Another story about simplicity and stability being Slackware's greates features!
Simplicity means you can always figure it out if you really try, and stability means once it works, it keeps working.

Whenever the slackware team is tempted to add complex or unstable features, they should look at stories like this one.
Slackware will rock as long as the developers (Pat and the slackware team) follow the KISS principle, and include nothing in slackware unless it is tested and declared rock stable.

Definitely you will find no disagreement here

I too took a meandering path to get to Slackware, but now that I'm here and look back, I'll probably be staying with it for quite some time.

I've seen the Slack "light' after several years...

slackware is the shizzle bizzle. I started with RH several years ago, then I tried ubuntu for a couple days, and finally switched to slack 12.2, now updated to -current. I can't wait for KDE4 to be performance optimized, in the mean time I think I might switch back to KDE 3.5

hehehe...a braver man than I

Meh¸ I like to switch around with distros, partly because I'm restless and always looking for something new to tweak, partly because I find redundancy a good way to guarantee that I always have something that works, and partly because I'm driven by whim. So while I can agree that I like Slack (which was my first Linux distro back in 1995), I also like lots of other distros. Yesterday I installed (gasp) Ubuntu 9.04 beta, and it's not bad. I'll use it for a while and then inevitably will switch again to something else.

Diversity is the beauty of Linux ... mostly that's what I'm pointing out.

I use Slackware to keep the bleeding edge stable. I have fixed many of the wonderful distro's because Slackware make it simple to help fix them. If you say how well it all comes down to dependencies and structure.
Slackware I have learned to build deb's,RPM', and of course tgz"s. this can be done on any linux distro but it comes down to structure. Is one better than the other or is life more simple to me with Slackware.
KISS life is already to complicated to learn it all just the simple life for me.
Can things be to simple I hear debian distro's are user friendly and the URPM world is very easy. ./configure make, make install it is all linux to me.
But what kernel is the best Vanilla or tweaked ?

Well, for me the Debian 5.0 Lenny kernel doesn't support my wireless intel 5300....and I didn't want to pursue it any further....Slack was a dream at that time...Now I'm hooked on it

Brilliant!

Thanks for that Pixellany! I really needed a good laugh!

Seangregory,
I also started with Ubuntu, moved on to Debian, then on to Zenwalk (which is based on Slackware and is very good). Zenwalk made me curious about Slackware; so I finally got around to installing Slackware when 12.0 came out; and I have been using Slackware ever since. It is the best distro if you really want to learn how to use linux!