“I posted some of my first impressions in the Entropy blog last
week. Slackware is still Slackware. It’s
designed for the very knowledgeable, experienced Linux user who
wants the ultimate in control over their system. Slackware utterly
lacks the kind of GUI administration tools found in most modern
distros and assumes you will work at the command line and edit
configuration files. Booting into X isn’t even an option offered by
the installer. Slackware has a well earned reputation for
reliability, stability, and performance. It may also be the least
user friendly major Linux distribution on the planet short of
building Linux From Scratch…”