I'm a FreeBSD user. FreeBSD is a Unix variant, it is not Linux. Ports is a durable, good package management system. Linux distros also have good package management systems. I very-much like the way that Slackware handles packages. FreeBSD is fast, but, so is Slackware.
Is FreeBSD better than Slackware? I think each user needs to make that determination for themselves. For me, I prefer Slackware over FreeBSD.

I've been running XP for last 5 years and suddenly, 3 days ago, got the idea installing Linux.
Ubuntu was boring to me, lasted about 2 hours to be replaced with Studio version, which had a big argument with my graphic card. Linux Mint was my next choice, but somewhere between downloading ISOs I found out about Slackware.
There we go.
I'm having great hair-loss on every new application install, but I get better.
Linux is the best choice for those who don't have a girlfriend lol

Jan

Welcome to the official Slackware forum, Jan! Good to hear you like Slackware. It is my favourite distro.

And if you _have_ a girlfriend, it'll send them packing in no time....they just don't understand.....LOL

You just haven't met the right girl, guys!

You assume "the right girl" will still be single when we meet her...

On topic: my experience is you either like slackware right away, or you come to like slackware after a while. All you need to do is use it long enough. It seems OK2BCK falls in the first category.

Welkom Jan! nice name, by the way ;-)

My girlfriend / wife uses Slackware... She surfs, mails, chats, burns CD's / DVD's, rips CD's, downloads music and puts it on her iPod. And sometimes makes me very proud by installing a package with Gslapt. On the job she has to work with M$ Windows.. She refers to these PC's as 'slow and infected fleabags'....
My kind of girl :-)


PS: Of course I installed the Slackware machines that she uses at home :-)

Slackware is the only major distro I have been able to install to a portable-vhd; all the others, save Fedora, freak out with kernel panic or lock-up.

Slack is also the most stable OS I've ever seen...just somebody add Glest to it and it would be perfect!

Thanks chief!

Looking back, Windows is like Slackware for kids haha!
I knew there would be something like this out there; some of us are still human beings, right? Some of us make things to be used and not to be only sold.

★What I like about Slackware the most? The fact that it exist.

Jan

I got hold of a new AMD64 machine.
I tried 4 distros that would not install successfully. I used Ubuntu up to that point.
Totally intimidated I was, by the reviews on Slackware - ........" definitely not for beginners ........" .
In desperation I stuck in the Slackware 10.2 disk that came with a magazine and sat there trembling. To my surprise it installed like a dream and I have been using Slackware ever since. I use Zenwalk on my elderly laptop.

And thats how I kicked the Ubuntu habit!

I never understood why some people refer to slackware as
"definitely not for beginners"

Over the years I installed various linux distros:
slackware, redhat, suze, (k/x)ubuntu

slackware was the very first distro I used
and I keep coming back to it

its installation interface might not be as slick as some
other distros around, but
1. it works
2. it's fast
3. there are no complicated options to select,
when you don't know select the default and it works fine

and you certainly learn more about unix when you start using
slackware than you're using one of the distros with
gui-only configuration interface