Interesting. I haven't used slackware for many years, so far back in fact that it had to come on CDs because I had a dial up. Will take a look in that direction this evening.
I hadn't used it since the mid-nineties but it was the first distro I ever used and, really, my first exposure to any Unix like system. My first copy came on a CD in a book I bought at a software trade show.
I joined a company that used Debian for everything so I ended up switching to it for many years. When systemd came along I decided to look around again; thus my foray into OpenBSD and my return to Slackware.
If you do give it a look you may be surprised at how little some things have changed. Packages are kept pretty current but the installer and the basic tools are surprisingly similar to the way they were when it was first released in the early nineties.
I ran NetBSD and OpenBSD on old sun kit in the late 1990s and early 2000's followed by Debian and then CentOS. FreeBSD got a look in persistently on the side. I'd rather like a step back to the sensibility of times past when you chucked something out and it just did its job until something blew up :)
I joined a company that used Debian for everything so I ended up switching to it for many years. When systemd came along I decided to look around again; thus my foray into OpenBSD and my return to Slackware.
If you do give it a look you may be surprised at how little some things have changed. Packages are kept pretty current but the installer and the basic tools are surprisingly similar to the way they were when it was first released in the early nineties.