Re:What is Slackware? (Score 1)

I can't tell ya about what it was in 94/95, but i can tell you what its like now. Slackware is another Linux distrobution (much like redhat, mandrake, suse, or debian), its another version of linux, which seems to keep a few ideals in all of its releases, mainly keep it simple, i wouldnt call slackware a rough distrobution by any meas, it just kinda sorta expects that you have some inkling what you are doing (and doesnt try to do everything for you), for me, slack says how high when i say jump. So it keeps things simple, slack also uses a BSD style init over a SysV style init (think redhat), and uses its own package system which to me is the most unix-ish way of doing things (a shell script and some binaries). All in all slack = full featured, but simplistic in its approach.