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TIL that Slackware is about five months older than me. I was a distro geek in my teens, and Slackware, together with Gentoo, is on of the two distros that I ne

• enriquto 8y ago
  > Is there any concrete advantages to using it today? As a new slackware user, I see the following advantages 1. no systemd 2. really minimal bare system: running htop shows less than 10 processes running (including those of root) 3. simple package management with no dependencies: a "package" is just a tgz file that you decompress into your filesystem 4. very up to date binary packages (e.g., there are just few days between the release of a new gcc version and its availability as a slackware package). I have spent most on my life on debian and ubuntu, and I cannot imagine going back to them. Other distributions that I like are voidlinux (but unfortunately it has automatic package dependences, that limit my freedom too much) and dragonflybsd, which has also very modern packages.
• cyphax 8y ago
  Concrete advantages, I'm not sure there are any, unless it'd be its relative simplicity. It's my preferred Linux-based OS, and has been for 18 years (I also ran Ubuntu for a few years for a desktop, but went back to Slack). I really like that it adheres to the principles behind it, and it's super nice that it doesn't change between releases, so it always feels right at home, if it's a brand spankin' new release. And the combination of many official packages plus SBo means it's about as useful as other distributions.