• nesc@lemmy.cafe
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    10 hours ago

    What’s the point of slakware, what exactly does it offer? When I was new arch user 15 years ago it was exactly the same, sparse updates, no package manager, limited support.

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      It’s a unique combination of extreme stability and extreme KISS philosophy.
      Sparse updates are a selling point for some people. You do get timely security updates, but you don’t get “version number must go up”.
      For installing additional software there are 5 package managers that I know of, 4 of which resolve dependencies.
      The base system doesn’t need a fancy one because the installer already resolves all dependencies.
      And as for support, there’s well-written documentation installed with the system, and linuxquestions.org has a very active community where the main dev and the maintainers post regularly.
      It’s certainly not a good distro for most people, but it’s the perfect one for roughly 10000 users worldwide.

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      10 hours ago

      Patrick Volkerding

      Slackware users love the fact that precious Patrick builds the entire thing himself. They also really like the fact that it uses no modern Linux technologies, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

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        Slack be upon Him, and may his code ever compile without errors!

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      I mean, if you’re an arch user you probably should get it, given it’s kinda the same train if thought that brings most arch users to choose that.

      The point is being a barebones system you can do what you want on top of, it tries to avoid making any choice for you.

      I’ve kinda often thought of it as the step between LFS and Gentoo/Arch for users who want the most control over their system.