Anything you want from a GNU/Linux-based operating system. Slackware is a great base operating system and its simplicity is its strength. For me it was very eas

Anything you want from a GNU/Linux-based operating system. Slackware is a great base operating system and its simplicity is its strength. For me it was very easy to get familiar with and feel at home in. One thing that it has over probably all other distributions is its stability in terms of software selection. It still defaults to Lilo over Grub, it didn't switch to systemd, and installing Slackware 15 or 14.2 when it comes out will be exactly the same experience as installing slackware 14.1, or just about any version preceding it, I'm sure of it. :) It has one thing to make it genuinely notable: it's the oldest surviving Linux distribution out there.