![]() The installation and package configuration for Slackware is all text-based.īefore I talk about the installation, a new experience for me, here are the specs for my test systemĪfter popping in the DVD, I was greeted with a non-graphical interface. You’ll still find the same installer that’s perhaps been in use for the last few years-maybe even for a decade or more. ![]() This brings me to the installation procedure. In a way, it tries to stay aligned to the original UNIX philosophy-why break things if it still works well. So, when they say Slackware likes to stick to simplicity, it means things are kept in line with the upstream, without any distro-specific customisation. In fact, technically speaking, ‘click-next’ makes things more and more complicated due to various top-tier UI abstractions that try to obscure the backend command-line. Now, when Slackware says that it’s focus is on simplicity, don’t take that to mean the typical ‘click-next’ stuff we generally associate the term with. Version 12.2 was released on December 11, 2008, and I wanted to see if they still lived by that motto. Slackware, as you know, is the oldest surviving GNU/Linux, whose roots go way back to the early 90s, and a motto to keep things stable and simple. When I heard that LFY was bundling the latest Slackware 12.2, it reminded me that this was one distro I was yet to try out besides, I wasn’t all that happy with Sabayon 4 that I was currently using on my home computer. In my book, all of these have their pros and cons, although I keep distro hopping not because of their cons, but because I am fickle and get bored with using the same thing for a period of time. I have tried out many flavours of GNU/Linux over the years-starting from Red Hat 9 to Fedora 10, Ubuntu, Sabayon, openSUSE, etc.
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