> Slackware or Soft Landing (SLS) for historians
> SLS was the first Linux distribution I used.
> As far as I know, it was the first distribution
> and hasn't been updated in years.
> It was rather buggy; but it was very important,
> because it made Linux easy to get and install.
> (Well, not by today's standards, but by the
> standards of 1992/93.)
> Slackware came out after SLS, and was a great
> improvement. It was basic, but it was a quality
> distribution. Unfortunately, it fell behind
> Redhat, Caldera, SuSE, and the others; and I
> stopped using it. Slackware is still around
> and is regularly updated. Since I no longer
> use it, I don't know how the current version
> compares to other major distributions.
I have only used Slakeware for the past 5 years. I think you would be
impressed with it today. One big advantage is that it is always current,
where you must wait months for the major names to get a new release out.
It is simple and complete.
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