Re: Distros: The Gourmet Food Of GNU/Linux

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 23:34:52 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> 
> Think of Slackware as kind of the “missing link” between an earlier
> all-or-nothing installation like SLS, and the later appearance of
> full-function package managers (Debian, Red Hat etc). It’s an
> interesting historical relic, and fun for wannabe geeks who find
> Gentoo or Arch or LFS too much to cope with, but I’m not sure why you
> would want to inflict it on ordinary people ...
>

Do not ever include that pile-of-garbage ArchLinux with the
venerable Gentoo and LFS.

We do thank you.