What is more stable: Slackware or Debian Stable ?

Xeratul · 08-28-2010, 04:19 PM

Matter of tastes and appreciation, there is no ultimate response, maybe statistics could be interesting:

What is more stable: Slackware or Debian Stable ?

hughetorrance · 08-28-2010, 04:38 PM

I,m not playing this one because its like saying whats the most valuable...

A dollar note or a dollar coin !

linus72 · 08-28-2010, 04:48 PM

I say Slackware easy
cant remember how many times I've broken Lenny installs
and have never broken a Slackware install yet, not even -current

vss2094 · 08-28-2010, 04:56 PM

Debian stable is stable when its out of stable,

Slackware has always been, weather current or else....

Matter of choice, taste, etc. etc.

dugan · 08-28-2010, 05:16 PM

Slackware unless you don't use unofficial repositories in Debian.

sycamorex · 08-28-2010, 05:27 PM

It's like asking whose children are more beautiful/intelligent.

Richard Cranium · 08-28-2010, 06:41 PM

Since I'm a Slackware user, I have no idea how stable/unstable any Debian distribution is.

Silly question, like almost all the polls here.

slackass · 08-28-2010, 07:26 PM

I've used 'em both, and my opinion is Slackware.

corp769 · 08-28-2010, 07:31 PM

I mainly use fedora on all my boxes, except for my "mess around" machine, which I'm running slackware. So IMO, slackware.

PhoenixAndThor · 08-28-2010, 08:00 PM

For this one, I'm voting Debian, because most of the stuff in the stable branch has been quite literally 'tested to death'. However, for those of us who don't like our software old and crusty, Slackware would be a better choice. Slack has been around for quite a while (18 years!?) and the dev team still manages to keep up with all the other modern distros. Of course, this is all beside the point. Under the hood, both distros are still powered by our favorite penguin and gnu.

hitest · 08-28-2010, 09:55 PM

I've used both distros and I can say that they are both excellent. I'm quite biased towards Slackware as things rarely if ever break on my Slackware boxes (including my -current boxes). In the final analysis a lot depends on end users and how effective they are with maintaining their boxes. Equally valid arguments can be put forth claiming superiority for each of these distros.
I vote Slackware.

corbis_demon · 08-28-2010, 11:49 PM

Have been using Slack since 7.0, and found it to be the best distro for me. Over the years, only the KDE branch has crashed on my machine, although seldom. So I don't install KDE anymore, and haven't had any system crashes.

Can't comment on Debian, as I've only rarely found use for it. Slackware suffices for all purposes.

samac · 08-29-2010, 03:33 AM

For the sake of comparison put the same poll on the Debian Forum and then notice that the results will be almost diametrically opposed.

samac

samac · 08-29-2010, 03:33 AM

For the sake of comparison put the same poll on the Debian Forum and then notice that the results will be almost diametrically opposed.

samac

hughetorrance · 08-29-2010, 04:46 AM

All right so I have slept on it...I never make any big decisions any other way... and Slackware wins it ... LOL

Thanks samac that helped tip the balance...