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;original rant was here at the forum.
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Why Slackware still matters!
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Why Slackware still matters!
;my article at linuxwatch has been posted to slashdot.
;forgive me my horn-tooting, i'm proud.
;original rant was here at the forum.
;treehead
;forgive me my horn-tooting, i'm proud.
;original rant was here at the forum.
;treehead
"It is a widely accepted notion among painters
that it does not matter what one paints, as long as
it is well painted. This is the essence of
academicism. There is no such thing as a good
painting about nothing." --Mark Rothko
that it does not matter what one paints, as long as
it is well painted. This is the essence of
academicism. There is no such thing as a good
painting about nothing." --Mark Rothko
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I have to agree with this guys comment on /. Slackware is a very stable, and configurable distro, but has it really evolved much since 1995? I'm hesitant about trying a distribution that doesn't even offer dependency checking when installing new packages. I guess Slackware would be a good learning experience for me, but honesty, I don't see what it would offer in the long run that Debian doesn't.
Comment from /.
"It's all about package management. Slackware has long since been replaced as the hobbyist distro-of-choice by Debian and Gentoo, and the casual users who simply want a "basic distribution that works" have turned to Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix, etc. Slackware has not evolved.
My roommate, I suspect, is the typical Slackware user... using it because it's what he was using in the 90's, when he chose Slackware for its laid-back, non-commercial attitude and for its geek-chic. More power to him, but I think that the newbie-hobbyists of today are not choosing Slackware as their first distribution crush... it simply doesn't offer the compelling technical advantages of Gentoo or Debian.
(note that the author of the linked article doesn't even mention Gentoo... -1 credibility...)"
Comment from /.
"It's all about package management. Slackware has long since been replaced as the hobbyist distro-of-choice by Debian and Gentoo, and the casual users who simply want a "basic distribution that works" have turned to Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix, etc. Slackware has not evolved.
My roommate, I suspect, is the typical Slackware user... using it because it's what he was using in the 90's, when he chose Slackware for its laid-back, non-commercial attitude and for its geek-chic. More power to him, but I think that the newbie-hobbyists of today are not choosing Slackware as their first distribution crush... it simply doesn't offer the compelling technical advantages of Gentoo or Debian.
(note that the author of the linked article doesn't even mention Gentoo... -1 credibility...)"
