Reason why I voted: because I happened to run accross this posting.

Why I voted for Slackware: Fedora sucks! Let me specify, M'kay?

Firstly, Fedora installation takes forever. I installed Fedora Core 6, and it took at least three hours. Three hours to install pre-compiled software packages from five CD's, of which only three were needed for my install. Debian takes that long over the internet, and when it's done, you have Debian, a distro that really works. After three painful hours, I was left with Fedora on my hard drive, a distro that barely works.

Which brings me to my second point: Fedora barely worked, and was very, VERY unstable. I could sit there under the Gnome desktop and watch as the icons for their samba interface switched back and forth from network link icons to folder icons. It was really disconcerting!

Suffice it to say, Fedora didn't stay on that drive for long...

I wrote an article about installing Fedora, and got comment from a Fedora fan that Fedora was Red Hat's beta testbed. Well, if that's the case, then I can understand why Fedora sucked so badly.

If you want to play with unstable beta software, Fedora is your best bet. If not, then I highly recommend Slackware.

Blessed be!
Pappy

Yeah, I've also found FC6 to be unusably unstable.

Agreed. I tried Fedora Core 6 and was dismayed at what a pig it was......sloooooooooooow.
Slackware is number 1:-)

I only tried Fedora 7 for a couple of days when it first came out. Didn't seem too bad, just didn't appeal to me that much.

Fedora is a project I continue to watch, maybe because Red Hat is based in my home state.

It doesn't hurt that the KDE version of Fedora 8 runs almost as fast on my system as Slackware.

Edit: Slackware is my favorite by orders of magnitude, and it's my main flavor. Main meaning 95% of the time.

A nice quote I read somewhere ...

We're all missing the obvious point:
Slackware goes to 12
Fedora only goes to 8
Anybody whose seen "Spinal Tap" would have spotted that right away.

You're missing the subtle point

Slackware skipped a few version numbers (from 4 to 7 if wikipedia is to be trusted...), so in reality, Slackware's at version 9, unless my maths is out.

Dammit! I was hoping nobody would notice that! It still goes 1 higher, though.

So, why do witches burn ?

B...b...because they're made of.......wood?

Blessed be!
Pappy

I like how slackware has java installed and configured for you along with codecs, but in Fedora you have to spend a few hours getting everything to work properly

I'm very pragmatic about it: depends on what you are doing with it and who you are. I'm an happy slacker since more than 10 years, but my father or my sister are not going to slack any time soon...

If you're starting now with linux, with Slackware you'll need some time in which you'll have an opportunity to _learn_ many things.

LOL. Although the outcome is predictable in the Slackware forum, the comments are interesting. Anyway, my two cents as a former Slackware user is that the person should use what they prefer!!!! It is stating the obvious that Fedora and Slackware are designed for a totally different "consumer base."

Regarding Fedora, I have done "one-hour" installs of Fedora 4 and 6 myself, but Fedora 8 is good enough that I believe it is worth considering by someone who wants an "everything including the kitchen sink" type of distribution.

I voted for the same reason as pappy_mcfae, because the poll was there. I voted it doesn't matter because, let's face it, if you're not using Cross Linux from Scratch, you're not using the right distro anyway.

I think the point has been adequately made...whichever one works for you. If you can't make up your own mind yet and don't need the HDD real estate, why not keep both until you can decide? I've tried both Slackware and Fedora (not the current releases); I didn't like either one.