My hat is off to all who have contributed to Slackware. I've been with Slackware for a long time with a few brief expeditions to the beyond. My foraging days ended years ago. The grass is not greener on the other side.

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I may file the odd complaint with Slackware, but at the end of the day, what else is left? After a bit more than a week on CentOS, a) I easily solved a couple problems I had when running Slackware b) I created just as easily a whole bunch of new and unexpected problems I didn't have when running Slackware. So here we are again. Feeling lightly silly like that homecoming cheating husband.

This may be an odd "thank you", but: thank you.

To Pat and all the Slackware contributers; past, present and future. Thank you.

For me, it's been over a decade of pipe smoking Slackness.

Slackware, take a bow. And to more.

I have just landed on planet Slack this weekend and I'm having great fun with -- what an awesome distribution, truly KISS.

Thank you to the Slackware team!

Welcome back. I regularly try out weird ass gnarly distros, but, feel a sense of relief when I come home to Slack. Praise Bob. I'll always be a Slacker.

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I can only echo the various sentiments above. Downloaded 12.1 or 12.2 (not sure) to try out Slackware and was blown away with how simple and powerful it was. Bought a subscription right after that and never looked back.Sure, I play around with some other distros from time to time on a spare drive, but Slackware is my main go-to friend. My deepest thanks and appreciation firstly to Pat for creating this thing of beauty, and of course Eric, Robbie and any others who make our computing life so enjoyable.

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There's just something about Slackware that makes it more stable, more reliable, more trustworthy, and more dependable than any other Linux distribution out there. It's the simplicity. It makes learning easy, even with the fairly steep learning curve, but you do learn, and you learn a great deal.

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Dear Slackware Team, Slackbuild Maintainers, Slackers!
This is my first post on any linux forum using this thread as opportunity for expressing my appreciation, respect and gratitude for the Slackware OS.
I am a linux user since 2002 starting with suse, playing with fedora for couple of months, and ended up using debian for several years(from sarge to wheezy). No distro hopping - I was happy and satisfied to get my stuff done in a secure, stable and reliable manner. However, i suddenly encountered issues that are related to package dependency resolution. I started to look around and tried to figure how are other distributions dealing with package dependencies - I was hesitating installing an OS without automatic dependency resolution as i was afraid not being able to get the software running that i need.
Being aware of Slackware not having automatic dependency resolution - I jumped into the cold water and tried it anyway. That happened when Slackware 13.37 was released. I was amazed with Slackwares performance, simplicity and stability and how easy it is to install 3rd party software using slackbuilds. Everything just worked and on top of that it tends to run snappier than my previous OS. No automatic dependency resolution is the best feature of Slackware! I couldn't be more happy and never looked back to any other distribution.
I want to thank all Slackware developers and slackbuild maintainers for their great efforts and for the OS that gives me peace of mind.

Best Regards,
Rheiko

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I've been a slacker for 10 + years. I'm not going anywhere.

Thank you all for all the hard work and excellence in every way.

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Thanks to all the Slackware devs, especially to Pat Volkerding and Alien Bob (Eric Hameleers). I trust in Pat V.'s decision, whatever it will be. To Alien Bob I say don't get discouraged by the systemd situation, this is a topic of great controversy for all distros, so it is to be expected that it will cause strife here too.

I think it is silly for people to threaten to leave Slackware over systemd. The reality is, they probably won't because by then every distro will be using it. It is not a realistic situation or threat.

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Hi all,
I read with great amusement about the posts made in that thread. I really could not understand what the complaint was for. systemd has not been implemented in Slackware and many people are already making preparations to run out (where I do not know). It was one of the few times that the Slackware community was enjoying backseat driving. Funny, that we were doing that.
Dear Slackware devs, please do not bother yourselves with the clamour in these forums. We trust you to do the right thing. I am not technically very sound but I know a good thing when I see it. In this regard Slackware is better than good really. Heck, I have note spent more time with Slackware than windows and other linuxes combined. You guys are great.
This is one of the times when thinking about something bad it's costing us more in time and effort than actually trying to do anything creative. So please do not give up. We expect a lot from you.

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No matter how many distros I try out, I always end up coming back to Slackware. Thanks, all!

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Thank you to the crew, Pat, Eric, Stuart, Robbie and those whose names I don't readily know.

Your work is appreciated and I look forward to the next Slackware, whenever you feel it's ready and in whatever direction you feel is right.

Thank you

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Thanks to all for putting together such an amazing distro! I really appreciate the time and effort. I've been using mainly Debian/Ubuntu based distros for the last 5 or 6 years and have tried a dozen or so others here and there but I think finally I have found the right fit for me. It's been a real pleasant experience to learn the install, tweaking, and package management process. So many times I was pleasantly surprised after reading through documentation and forums on how to do this or that or make some kind of change and it almost always worked the first time.

Admittedly I did try Slackware a couple years ago and was scared off because I didn't quite have the linux knowledge to get everything installed and working. Now that I made it through this time I feel like I know so much more about Linux and my system. (wasn't really as hard as some people make it sound) Made the change after having quite a few issues that seemed to start when certain recent changes were made to Debian/Ubuntu. Still appreciate all the other distros and hard work put into them but I'm super happy with Slackware as my main OS.

Thanks again to everyone for all the time and effort. You have put together a truly great OS. I look forward to learning more and giving back in any way I can.

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I think it is important to remember that this thread started because of a time when the hysteria surrounding systemd was of hurricane force and many found their emotions swept away into mindsets they would not normally allow. There seemed good reason to scurry around screaming "The sky is falling!" in the midst of it but thankfully that hysteria seems over and hopefully an important lesson(s) has been learned. Never cave into fear.

Slackware's track record (which actually means Patrick, Eric, Rob and more) simply deserves, HAS EARNED, more than that. I play around with other distros to be able to "speak" intelligently about Linux in general and not be isolated or assumed to be ignorant of other ways and means, and prejudiced against those others. However the simple fact remains that no other system even comes close to commanding my respect and appreciation that Slackware always earns. It is now and will likely always remain my main system on all my boxen and nothing I can do or say can ever fully represent how important that has been to me and that I can fully expect this will continue for as long as I can punch a keyboard is equally immeasurable. So as puny as it seems THANKS GUYS!!

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