Slackware 12.0 released

Slackware 12.0 released

Posted Jul 7, 2007 11:41 UTC (Sat) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876)
In reply to: Slackware 12.0 released by juhl
Parent article: Slackware 12.0 released

"In my opinion, Slack is no more difficult to keep up-to-date than any other distro - in fact I'd say it's sometimes easier since you don't have to fight package dependencies all the time."

That's also the downside of Slackware. E.g. recently many packages have been split. With a "dependency-aware" system like dpkg + APT, such splits will be handled automatically. With Slackware it will continue to work, but with your old packages, at some point you have to replace the larger packages by split packages manually.

I have pretty much used Slackware exclusively since 1994 until 2003. Since then I have pretty much moved on to NetBSD/Debian/CentOS. I don't care too much about compiling everything manually anymore, I lost the time to do that. It's nice to be able to yum/apt-get install a high-quality package when you need it.

Of course, each to his/her hown. The point isn't that there is one perfect distro.

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