If Slackware were no more, I'd throw all my computers away, get a manual typewriter, move to a plywood shack in the mountains, grow my hair and beard long a la Stallman, and write my manifesto.

Actually, I'd probably just run Arch.

I would have to go with Windows Vista SP1. Stability is a huge concern for me.

I think I could dig up a copy of windows ME if it's mission critical.

Ha-ha ++

This thread inspired me to do that this weekend and I have to say it is very satisfying to complete it. It's crazy. After I press enter in Lilo's menu, I get to the login in 7 seconds.

I'm unsure whether I'll go straight to BLFS or I'll implement pkgtools there. That would probably mean a full recompilation, but, hey!, I'd finally get a good hang of building Slackbuilds. Besides, it's easy to keep track of things now that I only have a couple of things installed. Once I start adding stuff (I'll put KDE 3.5.10 there just to see why people love it so much), it will get much more difficult.

That or bend over and kiss it good buy, cause the world is coming to an end.

Been reading that Mayan calendar again, huh? Or watching gas prices, maybe?

Hi,

New beginning, New Slackware!

I think we should all sign a suicide pact.

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Oh please.....just listen to some pleasing tunes of your choice and chill, man.
Slackware is here to stay.

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Wow so many Arch votes. Arch has a close design to Slackware, but there's two glaring reasons I wouldn't use it.

1) Their rolling release model is terrible for anyone who wants a reliable desktop. Have fun being an involuntary Linux beta tester and things randomly not working between day to day updates.

2) They don't even sign their packages. Next week's news: Arch mirror gets owned, thousands of users compromised.

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I currently have Slackware -current on my home built high performance desktop machine, and my work laptop which unfortunately needed to be a little more mainstream and less exciting has Debian Squeeze on it.

If Slackware were to disappear I might have a go at Arch, or maybe Gentoo or LFS. My home computer is where I get my tinkering fix. If it breaks then I get the fun of fixing it. Every one else hates my home desktop because its set up just the way I like it.

Though having said that I am pretty pleased with Debian (my first experience with the distro).

Debian is a right solid distro; aptitude is powerful package manager. However (this is just my un-solicited opinion) I feel that the imposed political correctness interferes with the OS.

I can definitely see that. The whole Mozilla ice-weasel/dove/owl thing is a little ridiculous. I much prefer Slack's method of leaving politics at the door and doing what works best.

Once I managed to enable the non-free and contrib repositories and install the things I actually need, things started to look up.

That works for me.