A lot of Linux enthusiasts argue/claim that Slackware Linux is an outdated and obsolete Linux distro.
Fair enough, if compared to more modern bleeding-edge distributions like Ubuntu, SuSe, Gentoo and the like.
Allthough Slackware is a vanilla-distro (little or no changes/patches to system packages what-so-ever), it can be TWEAKED to include whatever you'd like. It is one of the last "hands-on" distributions out there. ANYTHING can be hacked/tweaked to suit any needs.
Slack forces the user to learn Linux from the ground up, and by this learning-curve, makes the user able to do whatever on whatever distribution in question. However, there are custom-distro's that focuses on specific user-scenarios: Ubuntu serves as a good "out-of-the-box" operating system for "gnubies", Fedora is Red Hat-based and serves as a rock-solid server framework or a good place to start as a sysadmin, SuSe is very good at security and Gentoo for compilation-wizards and optimization-gurus.
But since Slackware is the oldschool-type, it is basically barebones.., it is the base, and it works!
Patrick Volkerding is the maintainer and "BDFL" of Slackware Linux.
The three S' o' Slack:
- Simplicity
- Stability
- Security
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