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It works well across devices and seems to sync well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has little to offer of its competitors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Slackware from high school and that is already for 18 years and still surprised how reliable Slackware is. I have systems with incredible uptime running Slackware. Moreover, Slackware does not come throwing you all the preinstalled unneeded software or asking million times - Do you REALLY want to avoid installing this? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configuring Slackware is not trivial and it does sometimes lack support for one or another hardware or feature, but eventually it is added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is much easier to understand and use. User-friendly software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing much. I like them in future use. Just use slack in your future business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unix-like philosophy, very high security, speed, straight forward, doc pages, stability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Missing of some needed packages, which are included in Ubuntu, CentOS etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used Slackware as Internet gateway, firewall, web server and this OS in all situations was trable-free, do his job flawlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In all situations I installed softwares from sources, as I didn't know automated software installer (like Suse) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The capability and freedom to change and configure and anything and everything with your OS and the potential for learning deeply of each components in Slackware as your OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

being isolated from mainstream linux (debian and redhat based) making installation and implementation for big application such as Corosync, Pacemaker, DRBD making it hard to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I started out with Slackware, to its core it

Still rings true - you learn red hat you

Learn red hat, you learn suse you

Learn suse - if you learn Slackware you learn linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing really lacking is a good package management system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simplicity, good user community, lots of platforms supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be difficult to use, some packages harder to install than others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slackware is an ancient distribution for Linux. I haven't used it lately, so have no credibility on how it lives today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficulty of keeping the OS plus all installed software current with each others' versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

STABILITY - For every new release ,Slackware has been able to include the stable versions of all included software programs. This ensures that save for the mandatory security and bug fixes, users get to compile and install the latest versions of their preferred software themselves.

SIMPLICITY - Slackware is amongst the now very few Linux distributions still offering users a simple , configurable system . I love how I am able to edit plain text configuration files on my Slack.

PRIVACY - We are in the era of cloud integrations. However , Slackware does not offer cloud integration ,ensuring I am not sharing my personal data with software firms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slackware does not currently provide me with automatic dependency resolution and this will probably be the case for some time to come.Also in order for me to install add-on software with Slackware , I have to search and install additional dependencies by myself ,manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.