Understood, but why is it called "Rolling" on distrowatch?
However I read about Slack on Wikipedia and it's saying, there's no native dependency resolving for installing packages. Did I understand something wrong, or is this true?

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About Alpine Linux: It's a pretty interesting concept, but atm I don't think it is the right OS for this situation - If I have already to wriggle around, just to get it properly shutting down the computer on a poweroff, I think I could use Archlinux as well... This is the bricolage I do not want.
There's kinda feeling like I had on FreeBSD, but also this wriggling for these basic things, which was not there on FreeBSD felt pretty good.


However, I'm not done with Alpine Linux yet, a so small and simple OS can be useful somewhere else, for sure!

That is indeed correct, there is no dependency resolution in Slackware. Generally speaking, the "recommended" install will install EVERY library you can imagine so that most anything you may need already has the dependencies installed. However, if there's something that you need to install that doesn't have them, the packages clearly tell you what's required.

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It only says "rolling" under "current" which is technically not correct.

"Current" is the development tree not a rolling release, and that's not what we're talking about here.
Yes that is true, but you're talking about servers, right?

Well, Slackware comes with everything you need on a server. As a result of that, there are no dependencies to resolve.

The Slackware model is completely different to almost every other Linux distribution (and even the *BSDs) in this regard.

So. For some time testing AlmaLinux OS and Alpinelinux I decided for AlmaLinux OS. Formost only with reposity "BaseOS" and "AppStream".
I only activate other repositories only on need. This makes the feeling similar stable to my imagination how FreeBSD might be.



Reason:
It feels very, very stable, offers much software and much manuals in the net.
Also Alpinelinux feels very stable and incredible fast, but I had some issues for manuals and some applications. E.g. I was totally unable to set up PostgreSQL... One of the most important systems I'll need for the purpose I see.
Furthermore with some additional packages Almalinux offers hosting of VMs by itself nearly "out of the box".


Of course I'm prejudiced: I've professional experience with different REHL based OS.


Thanks anyway to all. This topic may be closed. =)

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