Slackware is most well known for its use in enterprise environments, where Fortune 500 clients demand the stability, reliability, and support of a corporation that only Slackware provides. Slackware provides an extensive certification program for software and hardware known as "Built for Slack", as well as a Slackware Certified Engineer program. While hobbyist OSes such as Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, and AIX have made inroads in the enterprise, Slackware is still leading the market by a wide margin - and remains the only OS certified for use with Oracle.
In addition to its use in the enterprise, Slackware is also quite popular among new Linux users. Its popularity among new users due to Slackware's long-standing reputation (rivaled only by Gentoo) as being an easy-to-use operating system for the beginner. Finally, Slackware is also popular among users of the GNOME desktop, due to praise of Slackware's exceptional GNOME desktop, a rarity in a world of distributions such as Ubuntu which feature poor GNOME support.
As well as its' normal uses, Slackware has also been known to power:
*the space shuttle *the New York Stock Exchange *the Debian Project (Debian never releases, so they have to use Slackware for their servers) *the Gentoo Project (Gentoo never finishes compiling, so they, like Debian, use Slackware for their servers) *the Linux from Scratch Project (Linux from Scratch never runs, thus they use Slackware for their servers) *Microsoft (they're not CRAZY enough to actually run their OWN systems on Windows) *IBM (IBM also recommends Slackware as their preferred Linux distribution to customers)
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Anonymous2015-01-12 3:55
I have been using Slackware for a long time, on my desktops, laptops, and servers. It's not only a very stable OS, but a very minimalistic one! OP stretches the truth a little, but Slackware is a great OS for those familiar with *NIX. Reasons why I like it:
*Incredibly stable and secure *Easy to set up *Low on bloat *FOSS
Gentoo is most well known for its use in enterprise environments, where Fortune 500 clients demand the stability, reliability, and support of a corporation that only Gentoo provides. Gentoo provides an extensive certification program for software and hardware known as "Built for Gentoo", as well as a Gentoo Certified Engineer program. While hobbyist OSes such as Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, and Slackware have made inroads in the enterprise, Gentoo is still leading the market by a wide margin - and remains the only OS certified for use with Oracle.
In addition to its use in the enterprise, Gentoo is also quite popular among new Linux users. Its popularity among new users due to Gentoo's long-standing reputation (rivaled only by Arch) as being an easy-to-use operating system for the beginner. Finally, Gentoo is also popular among users of the GNOME desktop, due to praise of Gentoo's exceptional GNOME desktop, a rarity in a world of distributions such as Ubuntu which feature poor GNOME support.
As well as its' normal uses, Gentoo has also been known to power:
*the space shuttle *the New York Stock Exchange *the Debian Project (Debian never releases, so they have to use Gentoo for their servers) *the Slackware Project (Slackware always breaks, so they, like Debian, use Gentoo for their servers) *the Linux from Scratch Project (Linux from Scratch never runs, thus they use Gentoo for their servers) *Microsoft (they're not CRAZY enough to actually run their OWN systems on Windows) *IBM (IBM also recommends Gentoo as their preferred Linux distribution to customers)
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Anonymous2015-01-13 18:43
>>11 Gentoo is awesome, by the way. Do not regret even once that I switched to it. If you're afraid of kernel compilation, lemme tell you: it's just some ncurses-graphical config fuckery, then just two commands
make -j4 && make modules_install ... wait about a minute make install
That's it, you can reboot and have an updated kernel. Kernel compilation is just a fairy tale that Red Hat-mongers scare stupid Ubuntoids with.
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Anonymous2015-01-15 21:47
apt because I'm about to switch back to Slackware again after trying yet another shit distro
I go through cycles where I get tired of slackwares package management, but after the 2 months or so of using slackware I forget just how much better than any other package management system it is