I never found slackware to as be difficult as people say. Maybe because its similar to the old 'pc' world. When I first installed MSDOS on my pieced together 286 I typed fdisk and made partitions then typed setup and went from there, then I tried out slackware later and typed fdisk and made partitions and typed setup and installed it, seemed about the same to me.

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I would say Slackware and Debian are two of the best distros around also...in my early days of running Linux, they were the only two that installed with less issues then the so-called easy distros for me at the time.

Saul that graph is inaccurate. The whole thing should be solid blue, not blue areas with gaps.

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I believe that Slack's upgrade process is one of the best - following the UPGRADE.txt and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.txt results always with working system and certainty, that it remains this way due high level of control over the upgrade process.

Although this makes the installer a thing you see just once. After the system is up, you never need to reinstall the slack, as upgrade just works!

And I didn't get, why the performace was not max'd out?

Arch and Debian are my 2 favorites, but it seems...surprising, at the least, that they found Debian faster than Arch.

I can use Slack, but just never been happy with it. Too much manual intervention required, nowadays I just want to punch a key and be up to date. I don't want to have to DO anything myself.

Fair enough. This is probably the main reason I love Slack as much as I do: I don't punch any keys and remain not up to date, while the OS is just as secure and stable as it was one second after the installation.

Hehe, remaining not up to date would kill me. Main reason I can't use something like Ubuntu more than 2 months after it's released, it gets too outdated for me. I have this incessant need to keep up to date, so found Debian Testing/SID (with lots of experimental anytime a release approaches) and Arch are pretty much the only OS's I can stick with for any amount of time without getting frustrated.

That is true, it is as secure as right after the installation. In fact, that is true for any distro. But only because you miss the security updates Slackware (or any other distro) offers. It would be more secure than right after the installation if you install them.

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Bah, I really should have worded it some other way: I keep up to date with security patches, but more than happy with the feature freeze.

Hi, my name is Timothy and I'm an update addict. LOL

Yes, I am. I ran gentoo for like 2 weeks and realized I was never able to USE my system because it was recompiling so often.

Every time I try to cheat on slackware with another distro I wind up running slackware.

I agree that it is easy and quick to get up a functional system, but there is a large gap between 'need' and 'want'. IMHO slackware is the most stable OS I have ever used, but its also the hardest to tweak. I actually enjoy that aspect of it.

This ironically ties in with the "if you learn slack you learn linux". I totally agree, however, my last slackware install was so nice it lasted longer than the hard drive, and so I wind up re-learning the install process.

Why do I suddenly sense a Patrick Volkerding and Chuck Norris in the same topic thread existing...?

Is there any advantage to using that upgrade method instead of using Slackpkg?

I know that feel. I realize that it's not necessary and not always a good idea, but I do enjoy doing it. One thing that was very hard to get used to after installing Slackware was the lack of updates. I'm starting to get used to it though. Using Arch and Debian Testing helped show me that a nice stable system can be nice. Well, I used Debian Testing for a year and only ran into problems a couple of months ago, really.