Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distros: The Gourmet Food Of GNU/Linux Date: 4 Aug 2026 07:13:26 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <18c81ca501269957$30639$916706$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <87v79rw7bv.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> <114r8is$1nlvl$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 2urioo9rx1JYSy/IVoUO7Q8ioPXFHeH4YwSc0cEA0Nfi34Xuiz Cancel-Lock: sha1:rz98nGs3C6ZH9KVT9z41Oa3pjdg= sha256:NiR4bzOP7iMjL8EVAJppRI5XA0Kt0a8AGGATc87myDY= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:719410 comp.os.linux.misc:89539 On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 23:34:52 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:29:40 -0400, jayjwa wrote: > >> Slackware doesn't use systemd. Let's not forget the OG of the Linux >> world. > > Think of Slackware as kind of the “missing link” between an earlier > all-or-nothing installation like SLS, and the later appearance of > full-function package managers (Debian, Red Hat etc). It’s an > interesting historical relic, and fun for wannabe geeks who find Gentoo > or Arch or LFS too much to cope with, but I’m not sure why you would > want to inflict it on ordinary people ... Slackware was my first distro. Download a cubic buttload of floppies one by one from the ftp site over dialup and put them all together with Scotch tape.