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  • mech@feddit.orgtomemes@lemmy.worldnailed it.
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    It’s a distro that maximizes stability and KISS design. If you used it 20 years ago, you’ll still feel at home today.
    And it’s so simple, it’s basically just a selection of software and a number of bash scripts.
    The release model is “whenever Patrick Volkerding decides it’s ready”.
    Slackware looks dead at first glance. The last stable release took 5 years, the website isn’t updated, all official online documentation is outdated.
    But the people involved coordinate on linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ , the Current branch is as active as Arch, and the up-to-date documentation comes in text files that are right in the directory where you need them on an installed Slackware system.








  • I wish there was one that’s up to date today. I’d pay good money for that.
    If you install Slackware now, you can’t open linuxquestions.org (the official support forum) because the Firefox version is too old for the Capcha. If you then do slackpkg upgrade-all and reboot, it won’t boot cause you forgot to point the bootloader towards the new kernel. Things like that can really bounce you off the distro.