I ran Slackware for ~6 years, my first serious distro. It's kind of the perfect learning distro for Linux - a super stable base, but if you want more you need to learn how to do it yourself. You didn't need to compile…
Got into Linux in 2008 with no knowledge and no help, Slackware was the first distro I successfully installed (after trying Debian). I tried Slackware after hearing the phrase "If you use RedHat, you learn RedHat. If…
Ubuntu made the switch to dash back in 2006 to decrease boot times, as dash is much faster than bash. This was upstreamed to Debian. POSIX compatibility made the transition easier (as most scripts were made to run on…
I ran Slackware for ~6 years, my first serious distro. It's kind of the perfect learning distro for Linux - a super stable base, but if you want more you need to learn how to do it yourself. You didn't need to compile…
Got into Linux in 2008 with no knowledge and no help, Slackware was the first distro I successfully installed (after trying Debian). I tried Slackware after hearing the phrase "If you use RedHat, you learn RedHat. If…
Ubuntu made the switch to dash back in 2006 to decrease boot times, as dash is much faster than bash. This was upstreamed to Debian. POSIX compatibility made the transition easier (as most scripts were made to run on…