Coming to the conclusion I'm the least qualified Slacker.

Qualified for what?

Anything.
No qualifications whatsoever. Self-taught polymath, and all-round smartarse.

You are qualified enough to provide jokes able to put us in good mood. Thus we like you and consider you a Distinguished Slacker.

On the PostgreSQL general news group there was a guy that was doing some kinda water/chemistry/something analysis. He used Slackware and PostgreSQL!

You've got me beat, my worst subject is math. Not to mention everything I know about GNU/Linux, software development, system administration and IT security are self taught.

I have been doing a few projects on my Slackware boxes (with other more powerful Unix machines) over the years. Those include a recursive neural network for system identification, sound propagation, real time spectra display and recently an analysis of my camera sensor (I am now retired). I used mostly C, the shell tools, Octave and Prolog as a NN graph compiler and of course LaTeX.

Slackware has always been my reference with the help of LinuxFromScratch and SlackBuilds. Some upgrades were not easy but I am patient and don't expect perfection so I survived.

I also use Window7 tablet PC's mostly because of the very nice handwriting recognition engine Windows is using. Good handwriting recognition (good for major languages including Chinese) is something that I didn't find yet in Linux.

It's funny, I could still run APL on my Linux box if I wished to; that's the first high level computer language I learned long ago.

Have fun.

It's not exactly a "hard" science, but I use Emacs, LaTeX, R, and Common Lisp all the time in my psychology grad program.

As mentioned earlier, having access to Common Lisp in the base install is twelve kinds of awesome. I like to glue it together with R via the RCL package.

I am trying to replace SPSS, Minitab, Mstat-c, Arcgis, Elwis with open-source equivalents (R, PSPP, Saga GIS) on Slackware for my researches in forest ecology.

Thanks. I shall put these letters after my name: GODS (Grand Order of Distinguished Slackers).
Polymath means having a wide range of knowledge (in my case, wide but not very deep). Mathematics is my worst subject, too.

Interesting, what do you use Lisp for in your psych program?

A lot of smart slackers in here

Let's just say I wedge it in wherever possible.

Lisp still has its place in studying learning theory, though unfortunately nowhere near as much as it once did. I end up using it more for mundane tasks and even scripting, but with RCL I can really have the best practical experience. That package provides pretty much the full power of R, written in a fairly Lispy syntax, plus the ability to do anything you want with the data in Common Lisp. Gosh, I sound like a bad commercial.

Excellent thread. Fun (and educational) reading what others use Slackware for.

I must say, after checking out APL online, it has sparked an interest.

We all love the esoteric, really