[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Slackware is the most venerable of Linux distributions, loved
and trusted by hordes of users, sysadmins and programmers around
the world for its solidity and closeness to the ground. Slackware
comes from an earlier time when Linux users were almost exclusively
hackers who walked the command line without fear or prejudice,
scorned the world of point and click, and never went out
overdressed.“Not that Slack is behind the times–a Slack user can sit behind
the same GUI as any SUSE, Ubuntu or Fedora user. Just that Slack
comes from a different tradition where the virtues are simplicity,
straightforwardness, and lack of bloat. The asset most valued by
the Slack user, and most often claimed for Slackware Linux, is
system stability…”