Slackware Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Slackware Linux Average rating 9.0 from 106 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Slackware Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- current15.014.214.114.013.3713.113.012.212.112.011.010.210.110.09.19.08.18.07.17.04.03.93.63.53.43.33.23.13.02.32.2.02.0.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2023-05-16 Votes: 13 What to say, one of the besto distros ever. It may look difficult but its not. Its not bloated, it has a hihly customisable installation and you can get a very basic minimal system for your needs, what you cant do in other distributions. After minimal installation, compiling everything else is best way to go and keep it simple. Compilation of software is very intuitive and easy same as compiling dependencies and manually tracking them. Elegant, simple and very stable distribution (even current one - rolling release ) Highly recomended Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 15.0 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-04-04 Votes: 143 Installing Slackware was a "travel" in 90 years! It's incredibly old, difficult, complicated and not reliable. The website of this Linux is not appropriate for such a big name. Downloads are available through mirrors (and otherwise you have to search for them a lot) and someone who calls himself "Alien". A live version looks awful and comes with "Darkstar" in Root. Strange repositories, like a SCAM. It's a pity that such a famous Linux distro remains undeveloped, complicated and 90 years product. The "positive" point is that, if you do not want an easy installation, a nice, modern workstation / desktop and drivers for modern applications, you can do endlessly messing around, puzzle and search for sollutions with/in this Linux distro. Have fun ;) Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 15.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-03-23 Votes: 15 When Slackware came out, the web, and the distro concept, were new ideas. By the time I started to use it, Slackware was one of the old established brands in a field populated with fly-by-nights. I thought, when moving from an established, proprietary, OS to something comparatively new and experimental I would be leaping in the dark and due a beard singe and finger burn. When I realised that I would be running the installer only once every few months, to a year, its quotidian appearance was less worrying than it could be. It is not true that Slackware comes with everything but the kitchen sink. I comes with a range of kitchen sinks. There are several desktops, several free-standing window managers, several of just about every kind of internet server you could possibly want, a surprisingly complete gcc package set, format converters and codecs, programmes I have found as binaries nowhere else. That is just on the standard installation iso that fits onto a 4GB usb stick. Once you get used to the installation and format convertion tools, installing openoffice and Libre Office on the same system is easy and simple to do. You may even like to install one of a number of third-party for-Slackware semi-graphical installers. These typically do dependancies, and not just that, they compile from verified source, automatically. However, you do have to install them first, by hand, with web browser and installation tookit. There are other products missing from Slackware that you may expect, such as gnome. You can get cinnamon and possably some other respins of gnome from some of the main third-party sites that, for me at least, take Slackware to the next level. What advice do I have for new users ? Install sbotools and sboui, if you must have dependancy resolution. Do not be alergic to the command line. And finally, if in doubt ask. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 106 reader reviews of Slackware Linux...