Small mini poll

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stayler wrote:

>Hi Guys,
>
>I have been watching the boxen thread with interest.  I noticed that a
>few of the the members are using some flavor of Slackware on some of
>their systems.  I would like to know, of the members who use Slackware,
>what you think of it and how has it worked for you.
>
I used Slackware for some months, but have recently switch to KRUD 
(www.tummy.com/krdu)

Slack was great. I liked the BSD configuration system; the system setup 
files were clearly written; it was very stable; there wasn't the 
"Bug-of-the-day" that seems to exist with RedHat; you can download the 
kernel source and recompile/update the kernel without problems because 
Slack doesn't need a lot of "improvements" in the source that RH and 
SUSE seem to.

It was a nice, tight distribution.

OTOH, you have to compile most everything you use from the source code 
-- which takes time and I was amazed at the amount of programs that had 
some really sloppy coding that called for editing and recompiling; some 
programs did not want to work well (CUPS comes to mind) because their 
developers wrote them for RH; it doesn't use PAM; there is no package 
management program of any utility; getting help can sometimes be 
difficult because the formal support site is not always up, and some of 
the answers to questions weren't always right; there aren't pretty 
configuration tools with it -- you have to edit copnfiguration files by 
had, BUT the files are written very clearly.

On the whole, I was very satisfied with it: if all the other 200+ Linux 
distributions were to disappear, leaving only Slackware, I wouldn't 
complain.

BOF