No Slackware takers yet? This is possibly my favorite distribution. It's a very "DIY" style of distro.
My machine is actually Slack 10.2 with some heavy modifications ... I keep up to date with the kernel, waiting on 2.6.24. In fact, many times it's not convenient for me to "upgrade" to Slackware 12 because of the customizations I've made.
Much of the emphasis in modern distributions has been on the gui, user-friendliness, and usability factors. Being a huge command-line fan, I feel right at home with Slackware.
People will ask me, (wanting to try a Linux distribution out) "which one is best?"
Well if I could answer that, I could also tell you what type of car you would like to buy and what you'd like to order from dinner from a restaurant.
My answer is always the same ... try a bunch out and see which suits you best!
To be fair, I also do like CentOS and Debian as well. They make fantastic servers. My "guinea-pig" machine at home will always be Slackware, though.
Any other Slack fans?
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Yes, it's best distro for
On February 9th, 2008 warden says:
Yes, it's best distro for me. Well i am using its 64bit clone - slamd64 on my laptop. But I've compiled most of my programs because slamd64 hasnt many packages available (or those are old..). I like when it's made from scratch!
You could always run
On February 25th, 2008 FredR says:
You could always run something like qemu and run virtual 32bit guest machines inside of your 64bit host machine!
I've been doing this lately. I have a heavily-modified version of slack 10.2, but I'd like to migrate to a 12.0 base. So I setup qemu with a guest machine and loaded slack 12 on it. I've been "living inside" the guest machine lately.
Many of my modifications, compiled programs, data files, etc live on other partitions ... so it shouldn't be too difficult to move 100% over to slack 12 eventually.
You could do the same thing, should you need something that works solely in a 32bit environment.
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