Slackware Reviews & Product Details

It's best if a person value a "do it yourself " approach.

It serve in any capacity from desktop workstation to machine room server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You have to learn to configure quite a lot thing by hand and you will probably have to learn to build programs from source at some point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Slackware is extremely user friendly, anybody with basic or no knowledge can use it. The reboot of the installer is really fast. It follows its motto " Keep it simple " to the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial setup requires assistance. When there is heavy loading it gets crashed a lot.

So the developers might have come up with loads of enhancements or updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The installer for Slackware is very simple, clear, and works well even with the most basic display/monitor. There were no screen resolution issues or incorrectly displayed text. The system is quite stable and booted pretty quickly. I love the custom console fonts! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup required a fair bit of "hand holding" and may pose an issue for persons who are relatively new. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slackware is easy to use for any user, in any organization just about and is excellent for increasing experience level with the use of this platform to perform higher functioning processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slackware often crashes and, due to that reason, needs frequent updates to constantly stay up to date, which is a plus as well. Users can choose installs in any way they prefer, which is also beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simplicity, everything is under your control, one of the fewer systemd free distributions, real school to master Linux.

Stability, rock solid, had almost no downtime.

You can choose what to install, from a very basic (but complete) server with only ssh access, to a full fledged system with all the bells and whistles.

It's a 100% hands on distribution.

Learned a ton just being using it, and still using it, there's something new to learn every day.

Slackware motto is "Keep it Simple", and everything goes accordingly to that motto.

Performance wise, it runs in a variety of hardware, from a humble ARM based Raspberry Pi, to a top of line desktop or laptop.

What I like the most, is the fact that all my data belongs to me, there's no cloud connectivity to anyone, unless you add it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downside (not for me anyway), everything is manual,there are no fancy graphical interfaces for everything, you have to use the console, package and dependency management is not perfect, but does the job.

Sometimes, you will have to build your own packages from source, track and fulfill any dependency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slackware is simple, flexible and extremely customizable. Slackware encourages Linux-way attitude and KISS principle. It does not require high end hardware and can be installed in very restrictive environments. Slackware is very stable and gives the user full control.

Most packages are available in "slackbuild" form - the programs can be installed by compiling in place, thus providing the best compatibility with the system.

It is very light on system resources. A minimalistic setup can run on very old hardware, so there is no need of constantly upgrading the workstation.

This is probably the only Linux distribution that can be run straight out of the box. The uptime is measured in years and only limited by hardware endurance.

The installation is very fast, usually it takes only 10-15 minutes in order to have a fully working system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes a while to setup if there are some unusual tools required. However this is very minor and for a seasoned Slackware user this is not a problem.

The learning curve is quite steep. However once you learn Slackware, you actually learn Linux (which does not work that way at all with the mainstream distros)

It takes a while to setup if there are some unusual tools required. However this is very minor and for a seasoned Slackware user this is not a problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slack configuration of all the layers of security and audit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The first time its kinda hard to know how to do several configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was most stable OS for my services - mysql, apache + php, mIRC servers, perl scripts. I started learning linux with this distro (2005 - 10/10.1 version). Currently I still have 4 servers which are running wonderful - there are no downs since they were installed. I have servers with these versions:

- 12.1

- 14.2

- 13.37 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Back then (2005-2010) I remember how hard was with manually configure each service you want to install. The main thing I currently dislike about Slackware is that they stopped supporting this amazing distro. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I started using linux in 1992 with yggdrasil, after a short time I switched to Slackware 1.0 in 1993. I immediately appreciated the simplicity and efficiency, as well as bsd style init scripts. From 1993 until today I use this distribution for my workstation and my laptop, with docker and all the tools that allow me to manage all my clients' workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Several packages need to be compiled, but there is still slackbuilds.org which contains a large number of references Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.