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See also Linux distributions based on Slackware
(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Slackware
http://www.slackware.com/
The oldest extant distribution, Slackware focuses on a sort of straightforwardness. It's not "light" or "easy", it is what it is. It's not cripplingly-difficult like Gentoo or Arch Linux. Using it is a little taxing on the mind, but doesn't actually require a whole lot of deep understanding. It's install was straightforward.
Using it, I feel "closer" to my computer.
Distribution | Last tested | LiveUSB | Package Management | Rolling Release | systemd? | Ease |
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Slackware | 2016-03-25 - 14.1 | text installer | partial + third-party | security | No (1, 2, 3) | "other" |
- Build your own packages with CheckInstall.
- Slackware native package management
- Slackware package managers
- Forum
- http://docs.slackware.com/
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TODO - https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:security:enabling_encrypted_swap
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2016-11-29 - I switched from Slackware 14.1 32bit to Devuan 1.0.0-beta 32bit
- Because Slackware 14.2 64bit and 32bit had freezing issues
- Because Slackware 14.2 32bit kernel updating was an intimidating prospect, and, as I recall, whole-disk encryption was annoying.
- Because Devuan was based on the strong software base of Debian, disk encryption would be easier, and like Slackware it doesn't have systemd.
- 2016-11-07 - Slackware 14.2 64bit and 32bit had freezing issues and were abandoned.
- Slackware 14.1 32bit
- 2016-03-26 - Lubuntu was my immediately-previous distribution.
- 2005-04-13 - 10.0
- late 1990s - Slackware was my first distribution.
- (then I used various Linux distributions)
- Afterwards I think I used PCLinuxOS.
- My Slackware story -- Slackware was my first distribution in the late 1990s.
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Note: Slackware reviews has earlier reviews
2016-03-26 - Quick overview ∞
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Weak because of
- No liveUSB
(Get a Slackware-based distribution for that: partial list.)
See also liveslack[doesn't exist] - The complexity of updating the kernel.
(Learning is hard.) - No repository of extra packages, and dependency resolution
(Use third-party resources.) - A bootloader that requires boot-repair to fix for Lubuntu and perhaps other distributions.
(Some might consider this a strength.)
- No liveUSB
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Strong because of
ported from an earlier content management system, also cleaned up and added-to
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found an old slackware date and version number, yay