Re: Distros: The Gourmet Food Of GNU/Linux

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

> On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:29:40 -0400, jayjwa wrote:
> 
>> Slackware doesn't use systemd. Let's not forget the OG of the Linux
>> world.
> 
> 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 ...

Slackware was my first distro. Download a cubic buttload of floppies one 
by one from the ftp site over dialup and put them all together with Scotch 
tape.