Re:Slackware packages (Score 1)

I totally agree with you. Slackware was the first real linux distribution I started using and everything I know I can attribute to that. Slackware forces you to know all the nitty gritty things that other distributions just GUI and package off to be easily point and click configured by the user. I'm well aware that they're a lot of people who don't care about the nitty gritty... but for anyone who's even remotely like me... they want total immersion into what they're doing. Thats what Slackware offered me and I'm glad I started off my linux days with it. These days I use Debian.. but only cause it saves me a little bit of time and cause I tended to make things a bit messy back in the Slackware days.. but it was all worth it.. there's nothing better than that feeling you get after making a fresh slackware install seem so robust. Just the way you like it.