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Originally Posted by gezley
Yes we've heard all of this before, and you can't recommend Slackware to anybody as a result.
Can you recommend Linux to anybody? A kernel.org server was hacked rather embarrassingly 4 years ago, and we're still waiting for the report we were promised in late 2011. This complete lack of transparency on the part of the kernel team has left me with persistent doubts about the trustworthiness of both the kernel and the inner circle of senior developers behind it.
Slackware going without updates for six weeks is small beer by comparison.
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Not only that, but in regards to what Slackware offers, it offers you a sound and stable framework upon which, if you need to rebuild the system to suit your needs, doing so is very painless. There's no real limit to the patches one could effectively apply to Slackware in the buildscripts, pending the patches actually work, that could effectively turn out a Hardened Slackware that could maybe rival OpenBSD. Many aren't included for obvious reasons other than they patch niche elements, but still the fact of the matter is, it can be done, and painlessly.
This makes Slackware not only recommendable, but the most recommended system to use because it gives you the admin, complete control in a painless way. The rest is how you choose the system to turn out. Yes, every system can offer this, but how many offer this on such the same level of ease?
