Yes, I wander away and try other distros, but, I always come home to Slackware.
There is no substitute for Slackware, but, I guess I'd have to say Debian is my second favourite OS. LOL, a week ago I was really fired up about FreeBSD; I think I'll always be a Linux guy.

Well... I don't really like Debian because it's so slow (I can't write a CD and play a movie on Debian while on Slackware it's all cool). The fact that Debian is 486 puts me down but in fact it's a stable distro.
How's FreeBSD?

Yes, Debian is slower than Slack.....heh, everything seems slower than Slack by comparison. I do like apt-get in Debian:-)

FreeBSD is quite interesting, the installer (sysinstall) ,is quite slack-like. I found that my knowledge of Slackware helped me to install FreeBSD. The only thing that previously hung me up in the install process was networking, I didn't understand some of the questions the installer asked. To date I've been able to install FreeBSD, get it networked, get x windows configured (BSD also uses xorgconfig), and update ports.
I'm back now tinkering with Linux again though. FreeBSD was something I've wanted to do for a few years, but, I'm really a Linux guy.

Edit: added later:-) Here's a screenshot of FreeBSD 6.1 running KDE 3.5.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...st/freebsd.jpg

I don't think Debian is too bad. I will say that you have to tinker with debian to get it as optimized as slackware. I think one of the great selling points for Debian is apt-get. very easy to use and keep your system updated. But yes as always Slackware will be number one in my book.

You'll never make Debian reach Slackware from behind no matter what!
Slackware will keep running faster... going farther... till Debian can't see it no more!

I never liked KDE... I'm more of a Fluxbox guy... Enlightment or Xfce at most. Gnome? Worse than KDE!
I tried FreeBSD in the first days I started using Linux, I installed it, no fuss, but then I had no idea what to do (as with Linux also) so I got back to Windows... then Linux of course and now that's all I run!

Heh, I'm in the same boat as you with FreeBSD. After I successfully installed it, I encountered the issue that Unix is quite alien to me. The knowledge that I have with Linux doesn't completely translate well in BSD. I've lost my motivation for BSD, after I got it going.....well...my interest waned.
I have Flux, Blackbox, IceWM and everything else installed on my Slackware system. I'm willing to give up a bit of speed for the functionality of Dropline Gnome. Dropline renders fonts and my desktop in general very well indeed.
But, each to his own of course:-) Flux is a blazingly fast DE.
At home I've got three *nix boxes and one XP Pro box that my child uses. I hate maintaining winders:-)

Of the little ive used FreeBSD, it served its purpose. All ive really used it for was headless servers so there was little configuration or maintenence, never had to configure X or anything like that. Im curious as to how it would run as a desktop...

My second favorite is Mepis. I installed it as option to the MS install that came with my laptop. I had it running in 10 minutes, no tweaking. I needed something that was quick and reliable. At the time, Mepis was based on Debian Sid. If there is a linux program binary package, you will almost always find a .deb.

I enjoy the challenges with slack. Makes me learn.

lol, first Fluxbox is not a "DE" it's a WM - XD
The most I've used Gnome was on Ubuntu, no fonts are better than what I have now. Plus I tweak them manualy.
Wow, all those Window Managers? I'm curious about IceWM and other WMs since all I tried were the *box, E-DR16 (I really love it, I will surely run only E17 when it gets stable), FVWM (just a bit) and TWM.
What do you think of the WMs you have?

Strange. I've installed FreeBSD on my second hard disk and it's definitely not within the 8 GB limit (at least I think so).

Heh, okay I got the terms wrong, so sue me:-)
Gnome on Ubuntu looks quite good imho. I've run Ubuntu 5.10, 6.06. I don't frequently use all of the managers/DEs that I've got installed, mostly I use Gnome, KDE, Flux, and sometimes Blackbox if I want something really fast. I just tried Enlightenment, but, it crashed; I suspect that Dropline has hacked my install of Slack somewhat.
What do I think of the WMs that I have? I usually don't switch around that much; I use Gnome, it works for me.

If I had to replace Slackware with another distro, I think it would be Ubuntu. It goes from one extreme to the other - the former allows you to configure it and customise it however you want, and the latter "just works."

I run Ubuntu on my laptop, and Slackware on my desktop - but the difference is that I would more than willingly replace Ubuntu with something else, but not Slackware!

(Actually, I had to format the desktop completely recently to make major adjustments to the partition table, and I've installed Ubuntu where Slack was, but that'll be off soon ).

I never really gave the BSDs a chance... I installed PC-BSD once, but I couldn't apply my Linux skills on it. That's when I realised just how different the two OSs are.

In case you're still wondering what I chose - Ubuntu.

My favorite Linux distro, and the only OS on my computer, is of course Slackware. My second favorite OS? BeOS. It was such a great system, fast, stable, so easy to use my Mom could figure it out. BeOS got me away from the world of Micro$oft. It was the first non-M$ OS that I ever used. I own the BeOS Bible by Scott Hacker. Poor Be I really miss the hell out of BeOS. Sorry, *sniff* I'm getting all misty eyed. I think I'll go download BeOS Max and install it just for the hell of it.

OS X is my second favorite.

All machines in my house run either Slack or OS X.