I just wanna share a little story about Slack. Recently installed Debian Sarge as my desktop, mainly because of the apt system, to me both OS's have their strong points, Debian Woody is reputed secure because apt-get will do security updates on all your installed software with one command, plus the software you get with Woody is secure/exploit free (in theory) because it will only make it into the Woody pool once it has passed certain tests, the down fall of this is having old (see oold) software. The default kernel on Woody is at 2.2.0 with the option of using 2.4.18. But what I'm really getting at here is that Slackware rules, I won't go into very much detail, but Slackware seems to be better organised, better thought out, more fun and anyway IMO if you're serious about security it doesn't hurt to know what you're upgrading to and why. I found certain things installed on Debain Sarge that just anoyed me, update-alternatives for example, when I removed the gnome-pannel to re-install it (with apt-get) I found every single file in /etc/alternatives dissapeared, I'm sure lots of people must find update-alternatives useful, or it wouldn't be there, I think it poped up when I upgraded from Woody to Sarge (apt-get upgrade). Slackware gives me more control over what's installed, I choose. Long live Slackware I don't think I'll be changing distro's ever !

One happy Slacker

amen

Here here! That's not a slam to Debian because I've never used it, but a thumbs up for Slackware. Been using Slack for about a year now and after nearly 9 years of Linux usage (playing?!) , it's the distro I am settled with. Proud to be a Slacker!

Paul

Tried most other distro,s but slacks in a class of it,s own great forums ,easy to update and fast. Pleanty of packages around to play with too...

Some of you guys should give Crux a go too. Its great. Its only a ~200meg ISO too.

It has all the flexibility of slack and then some more.

http://crux.nu

Ion

I tried to switch to linux with nothing but failuier for 2 year using old redhat versions, I would install on a secodn system and then just enever used, could nto make it do anything because I could not find the utils.. there was my propblem, I tried to use utils. Then 4-5 years ago I got slack and installed, within a week I had all the important stuff configured through the config files (which are 100x better than utils) then within a month I pretty much stoped using windows, 2 years into it I actually deleted windows. learn on slack live on slack and happy thou art.

hehe, after all the time it took to 'learn' 2 distro's from only knowing wintendo, Slack put the fun back into pc's for me, used to play around with Dos 5, pctools, 8bit soundblaster, space quest 1, 2 and 3, as well as all the other Sierra quest games biggest game I had was Lary 5 took like 15 diskettes. My bud and I were really anoyed when the first version of Windows came out. Now whenever I wanna try something new, some language or some server, I always look for it on linux, recently found out that mysql has odbc links you can install on top of access to so that a sales executive or whatever can access it as if it were a ms sql server, or close enough. In passing really also hopeing that this SCO story is going to get sorted soon.
But in all this there are two things that I can't get on a Linux platform today. 1) MS Office (although someone I know at my night school claims he installed MS Office 2003 on wine and that non of the other Offices worked for him),,hmm interesting 2) Descent streaming plugins. I got mplayer plugin to play Quicktime and Windows stream as well as the older Realplayer streams. But MS has that new streaming protocol now with WMP 9 and Real with their RealOne player. Haven't looked into it lately but I think I can safely say that when it's possible to play the latest Real player formats in Mozilla (Helix perhaps), I got me a nada penguin

Mmm, Slackware. Ever since 8 I have been a huge fan. Here's to years of more Slacking.

Although Debian is a tried and truly great distro, Slack is by far the best for me.

Salute...

slackware isn't about being better than the other distro, or more friendly, thats the beuty of it. Slack is for people who are independant, original thinkers. other distros are all made to please most of the people most of the time, slackware is made to please the advanced independants that like absolute customisation with absolute lack of generalisation, any time they choose.

all distros have there place, slackware's is in my comp, redhats is in my fire (but you can use it, it just isn't right for me, nothing against other people using it unless they try to force me to as well.)

Slackware: perfect blend of linux, bsd, and gnu. (in that order :-D)

The reason that I use Slackware is it is not "bloated: with a bunch of stuff that I dont/wont need. I can do an install, compile a few other things I use, do some minor setup configurations (nvidia card) and I am pretty well set with a disto that is faster than the others I have tried. It also has made me get in and get my knuckles dirty and learn. I love a challenge!

hab some equivalent experiences with debian dont like it either slack is cool and kicks ass i will be reinstalling it soon but at the moment im getting more into gentoo but slack remains in my heart gentoo and slack are the best distros for me

Yeah Slack rules! This summer, I may be trying FreeBSD as well...I hear some good things about it.

TheBman - I noticed that Slackware is MUCH faster on my computer too (compared to RedHat 9). That alone sold me!

wow, never realised slack that much was faster. I started with slack, I have used other distro's, but only on secondary machines to see if I liked them (didn't)