Just curious what other Operating Systems Slackware fans like/love. You can give reasons too :-)


P.S.: If your favourite OS is not Slackware, vote for your favourite OS [and specify this in a post if you will]

Other OS that I like besides Slackware? MS-DOS

you should have also included linux from scratch in the poll. many members in lq also prefer the distro. i use gentoo btw.

FreeBSD for me. Reminds me of Slack

What version of MS-DOS? 6.22? Before I tried to hack (or should i say tried to get free from) that os. It's a bad thing I didn't know linux at that time. Using the system was just like being a slave.
But it's where I started though.

Basically I live on with Slackware only, though I voted here for SuSE because I gave it a try to see the XGL stuff, quite amazing it is. But I stopped using it a few weeks later... it was just too damn ... "friendly"

I tried Slackware 10.2 a few months back. There wasn't anything wrong with it and everything worked so I don't really know why I stopped using it. I just keep going back to Gentoo. Same as when I tried Debian and Ubuntu.

I'm not sure whether I like Gentoo better or if it's because everything is already tuned in the way I like it and I can just get work done. Probably not though 'cause I had Fedora configured to my liking when I tried Gentoo. I haven't used Fedora in months...hmmmm is a new, clean partition in my future perhaps?

... i voted gentoo, but the only other real operating systems on the list are BSD and windows, all others are linux (gnu) [no flaming please]

I've been trying FreeBSD for a while but i'm almost done with it. (keeping it for the learning experience) it's very nice (in theory) however i hate it when my programs start kinda slow (used to Slacky) and i like the freedom of compiling for yourself instead of relying on ports.

I'd be hard for me to replace Slackware, but if i had to i'd probably go with Arch or Crux, Gentoo is nice but kinda experimental (much like debian sid imo)

I understand we are always looking for a better os, but i don't think there is a "perfect" os. Slackware is the closer you can get (imo). If i were running a server i'd probably go with OpenBSD.

I'm curious about http://www.diy-linux.org/ but no time now.
Well nice poll, i'd also like to hear what other peers think

I like Gentoo and FreeBSD myself, though haven't used either as much as Slack.

I'm getting into Puppy Linux at the moment.

I have a windows XP laptop from Packard Bell, and their installation routine/boot sector is a nightmare.

So rather than take any chances, I decided to go with a live cd, version 2.02beta of Puppy can write to a multi-session cd/rw or dvd/rw or a squash file system file on the NTFS partition and mount it as ext3. It then loads all this into a ramdisk.

The upshot is I have a non-invasive linux distribution on my windows machine that boots from cd to desktop in under 30 seconds, and applications take about one or two seconds to load. All changes or additions are then saved to the squash file system and are available for use next time.

Also because everything is in ramdisk, you can remove the live cd and play cds or dvds.

It also uses /etc/rc.d/rc.daemon style of init scripts.

Samac

who voted for windoze!!!!????

Probably RMS

started with suse, tried knoppix (c'mon...who here doesn't have a knoppix cd sitting on their desk right now???) found slackware and LOVED it....then found arch, love it too, not as much as slack, but it's nice...so it's on my box too.

Trying out Zenwalk 2.8 just to see how the latest Xfce 4.4 is coming along. Not to bad. Might have to install it on Slack when it hits RC.

MagicMan

Good point - I'd have voted for it.