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Does Slackware still matter?

Posted by bstadil on · 1 comment
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Although Slackware was THE distro in the mid-90s , at the present time it has conceded the corporate market (but of course Linux is not about market share, the Slackware zealots always remind me!) to Red Hat and SUSE, and the rest of the market to the many Debian derivatives, with the result that Slackware is now just a niche distro used by a very small minority of Linux users.

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tuxchick ·
Silly author, of course it does. It doesn't need all the fancy GUIs and corporate-friendliness and handholding for casual users- that's not what it's for. Those arenas are well-served by other distros. It's a nice, clean, no-frills Linux for folks who want a nice, clean, no-frills Linux, which just about makes it unique in these here modern times.

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