| Just because "tar" happens to stand for "Tape ARchive" doesn't mean tarballs have anything to do with actual tape archives. It only means that the files are stored sequentially, which is a perfectly reasonable way to structure an archive. If you want to criticize how Slackware does things, there are myriad better points you could've brought up, like: - The installer being only minimally changed from that of Softlanding Linux System - The installer still operating under the notion of "disk sets", from back when it was remotely feasible to install Slackware from floppies (which hasn't been the case in multiple decades now) - The lack of dependency checking (though having been burned by dependency hell multiple times, I'd call this a "feature") - The lack of PAM, if that matters to you (though the -current branch now includes it, so Slackware 15.0 probably will, too) And yet, none of these things have prevented me from being happy and productive with Slackware, both at home and at work, on desktops and servers. It's what I'm running on the very laptop on which I'm typing this comment, on my main workstation / gaming rig at home, and previously on my servers (before I acquired a taste for OpenBSD and SmartOS). |