Debatable? That's fine, because you or anyone else may agree with me.
I can bring you a lot of arguments to support my opinion that Slack is an ideal GNU/Linux distribution. It is the most UNIX-like of the whole herd of Linux distributions.
Christopher Negus describes it in his "Linux Bible" as
I can bring you a lot of arguments to support my opinion that Slack is an ideal GNU/Linux distribution. It is the most UNIX-like of the whole herd of Linux distributions.
Christopher Negus describes it in his "Linux Bible" as
Slackware is a clean, basic Linux system, applications that run in Slackware will run on
most other Linux systems as well. In other words, you won’t be encouraged to add a lot of special
Slackware hooks that would prevent software from being portable across a wide range of Linux,
UNIX, and BSD systems
Slackware can easily provide an efficient development workstation environment for technical people
because the distribution doesn’t get in the way of its powerful features.
keeps you as close to the silicon as possible,
I don't mind that Linus Thorvalds is a Fedora Linux devotee.I’ve often heard users refer to Slackware as being easier to use than other Linux distributions. To
someone coming from a UNIX or BSD background, this is probably true. You don’t have to wait for
graphical tools to pop up and almost everything is covered on a man page.