> Sadly the resulting system was nigh-unmaintainable, on the level of old-school Slackware What is unmaintainable about Slackware, unless by "old-school" you m

> Sadly the resulting system was nigh-unmaintainable, on the level of old-school Slackware What is unmaintainable about Slackware, unless by "old-school" you mean older versions that aren't supported anymore, i.e. not maintained? Slackware has been one of the easiest to maintain distros since the beginning; I would know, I've been using it since 1999, and it's one of the few distros that survived the early/mid 90's birth and adolescence of Linux.