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Slackware. It's the only distro that has never let me down or broken down on me in any significant way. Its highly vanilla, conservative and generally component
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
Slackware. It's the only distro that has never let me down or broken down on me in any significant way. Its highly vanilla, conservative and generally component-agnostic nature means you can fling and perform just about all sorts of ugly hacks (which you need to do a lot in the Linux world anyway) on it without your system being holistically affected in any notable way.
I stopped caring about my WM a while ago and mostly just use Fluxbox with some small menu tweaks.
- progman 12y agoWhat about security updates? Are they as easy to maintain as in Debian and Ubuntu? I used Slackware at the very beginning of my Linux time in the 90s, and I really liked it. Now I am considering to use it again in face of Debian's non-optional move to systemd.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoSecurity updates are regularly served both in mainline and -current (rolling) repositories, along with dedicated security advisories. See: http://www.slackware.com/security/ http://www.slackware.com/security/