Rediscovering Slackware after 24 years
by slackmensch from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5H5X5)
I reluctantly signed up to linuxquestions.org so I can ask questions about Slackware. (Seems like linuxquestions.org is where all the minority distros' forums end up?) I've been using Manjaro for a number of years now and I'm getting lazy and increasingly ignorant of how things work.
Sometime in the late 90s, I first gave Slackware a shot, got super-confused, and ended up using Debian (and several *buntu derivatives) until Arch came along. I've dabbled in FreeBSD/OpenBSD/DragonFlyBSD but didn't like them too much: a lot of hardware support just isn't there for my computers, documentation is a little better than that of most Linux distros but still not great, and the pkg/ports mess seems even worse than package managers in mainstream Deb-/Arch- based Linux.
So now I'm back to Slackware, looking for simplicity, not upgrading the kernel at least twice a month, and no systemd.
Sometime in the late 90s, I first gave Slackware a shot, got super-confused, and ended up using Debian (and several *buntu derivatives) until Arch came along. I've dabbled in FreeBSD/OpenBSD/DragonFlyBSD but didn't like them too much: a lot of hardware support just isn't there for my computers, documentation is a little better than that of most Linux distros but still not great, and the pkg/ports mess seems even worse than package managers in mainstream Deb-/Arch- based Linux.
So now I'm back to Slackware, looking for simplicity, not upgrading the kernel at least twice a month, and no systemd.