Article by velimir baksa on many sites there are a lot of information about ubuntu or its successor, mint, these distributions are excellent, very. Originally based on softlanding linux system, slackware has been the basis for many other linux distributions, most notably the first versions of suse linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution that is still maintained. Slackware and arch are quite similar in that both are simple distributions focused on elegance and minimalism. Hopefully this book is useful as a reference to more experienced slackware linux users as well. Slackware is the most unix like linux distribution, sharing basics with bsd. Slackwares package management is much more minimal than gentoos. It was one of the earliest operating systems to be built on top of the linux kernel and is the oldest currently being maintained. While arch uses a rolling release system, crux has more or less yearly releases. I dont want suggestions for other distros with easy installs or any of that business.
Some people were asking us to make small tutorial about how to install slackware. Arch and sid are comparable in many ways, and i use them both on different computers. Gentoo is great if you want to hack, code, compile, etc. If you started using gnulinux in the last 10 years or so, theres a very good. This is an article outlining the differences between. Arch offers the arch build system, an actual portslike system and also the aur, a very large collection of pkgbuilds contributed by users. While slackware does aim to maintain its traditional. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own. Please check out the faqs before sending email to support as this will help us out and most likely answer your question more quickly. Linux experience, and covers the slackware linux installation, basic gnulinux commands and the configuration of slackware linux.
Jun 21, 2009 so slackware doesnt try to be the best pond for linux toedipping. While slackware does aim to maintain its traditional unix roots and values, there is no escaping progress. This new release will differ in one major way yet continue to offer the availability and reliability that slackware has become. Finally i can connect my laptop to a wireless network without having to remember arcane commands or copy long keys into config files. Arch linux vs debian gnulinux detailed comparison as of. What is the most similar linux replacement for slackware. The next generation episodes, best of both worlds, both arch linux and slackware represent the best of all the os worlds. After reading this book, you should be prepared to use slackware linux for your daily work, and more than that. Arch typically applies patching only to avoid severe breakage or to ensure packages will compile cleanly.
Akamai the leading global content delivery network have generously provided us with extensive global content caching and internet routing performance enhancements, allowing us to keep the site up, even at peak times a big thanks to the guys at akamai for. Over the past few months, slackware has become the most popular linux distribution to be made available on the internet. But jack wallen says the benefits of this distribution more than outweigh the difficulties. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, slackware brings the.
By default networkmanager does not start at boot so lets fix this. This website is the home of the revised slackware book project the project. If you want to learn the deep magics of linux, or add your own patches to common things. Sid is the testing ground for what will eventually become debian stable. Nov 15, 20 some people were asking us to make small tutorial about how to install slackware. What is the difference between arch linux and slackware. Slackware is a linux distribution created by patrick volkerding in 1993. Arch linux vs debian gnulinux detailed comparison as of 2020. Slackwares installer will handhold you through the configuration process, while archs actually puts you into an editor to handedit etcnf which is a pretty simple file. For custom installations or 3rdparty packages, slackware relies on the user to ensure that. In this article are benchmark results from ubuntu 12.
Slackwares installation is a bit more simplistic than that of most other linux distributions and is very reminiscent of installing one of the varieties of bsd operating systems. Archs install is a little bit different in that it doesnt actually come with xyou have to install it with the package manager which downloads it before you can. It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menudriven package system. Every linux has its unique motto arch linux where you can customize everything arch provide a base and uses pacman as packet manager it is bleeding edge. Transparent package management, allowing me to install software without breaking the whole system in case of conflicts. Pacman is also much faster than apt in my experience. Slackware linux is a complete 32bit multitasking unixlike system. This was when i started to take slackware seriously as my main os. Ubuntu well, according to this and what i researched around the web, i got everything now. In the questionwhat are the best linux distributions. Linus torvalds says gpl v3 violates everything that gplv2 stood for duration. Slackware s package management is much more minimal than gentoo s. The book instructs the user on obtaining the source code for a minimal base package set for a.
Ubuntu i didnt try slaptget and emerde, but without them managing a slackware system is a pita, unless you just install everything. So, i basically have it narrowed down to arch, crux, and slackware linux. Debian gnulinux is ranked 1st while arch linux is ranked 2nd. The official release of slackware linux by patrick volkerding is an advanced linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. No hard dependencies in the package management, such as refusing or dema.
Both processes are fast, but installation on slackware is a bit easier for newcomers and some options can be easily configured after the installation. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, slackware brings the best of all worlds to the table. Slackware doesnt have automatic dependency checking when upgrading packages but that is normally never an issue if you do a full installation. What is the basic difference between arch and gentoo linux. They are broken up into sections so that you can more quickly look up your question and find an answer for it. If you are looking for a distribution with the latest kernel, select linux from the dropdown box below and type the version number into the text box next to it.
One really nice addition to slackware is a new easy to use network management tool built into kde. Finally got some fixes we were waiting for in this new kernel. Arch has a ports system, which is nice for quick and expedient recompiling. Slackware does have a package manager, sort of, afaik slackware packages are pretty much just precompiled binaries in tarballs. Personally, ive been using slackware on the current branch since 2012 and it cured my tendency to distro hop all the time. At the request of many phoronix readers following the release of updated arch linux media, here are some new arch linux benchmarks. After more than two months of testing, patrick volkerding has finally announced the release of slackware linux 14. Slackware linux may be one of the oldest surviving linux distributions but its still regularly updated and includes the latest releases of many of the most popular free software programs. Slackwares init system is a hybrid of system v and bsd methods. I love their documentation, their forums, and emerge is wonderful.
Slackware offers a nice ncurses based installer and arch has a fast and simple text driven installer. Arch also has the biggest community of the three by far and many more packages. Both, arch and slackware have textual based installation. Slackware is a free and open source operating system. Slackware linux is a complete 32bit and 64bit multitasking unixlike system. When comparing arch linux vs debian gnulinux, the slant community recommends debian gnulinux for most people. This book contains many real life examples derived from the authors experience as a linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. Ive used gentoo nearly since its inception, as my primary desktop, and my primary server. I find pacman output much more readable, relevant and preferable vs. Slacks installation is easier than archs, but the package manager makes you do a lot more. Extract the content of the iso to for instance a new directory called slackwarelive. The pressure of delivering the slackware web site especially at release time has been an issue for some time. Addingremoving daemons especially, is really easy, much easier than in slackware, the slack book has forgotten to mention those. Slackware is about as pure a gnulinux system as you can get at least, without all the.
Ubuntu is only that widespread because many people switching from windows to linux are afraid of it and therefore use it because it is kind of easy to use and canonical the firm of mark shuttleworth behind ubuntu advertises a lot in that direction. The most important reason people chose debian gnulinux is. Aug 09, 2012 like slackware, arch is built around simplicity. As we said, though, this can be a good or bad thing depending on your appetite for a challenge. Arch linux provides many thousands of binary packages within its official repositories whereas slackware official repositories are more modest. Slackware live edition can do a network boot boot using pxe protocol o. The kernel is preconfigured, and many times the install guide refers to using scripts to automate tasks that are a bit mundane during install like genfstab. It contains an easytouse installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menudriven package system. Slackware is famous for its lack of branding and completely vanilla packages, from the kernel up.
What is the most similar linux replacement for slackware linux. Once you have passed the initial liveboot stage and brought up the actual os, you login as user live. Arch has a more simple init and cleaner configuration files. Search the distrowatch database for distributions using a particular package. Mayank sharma slackware linux is the oldest surviving linux distribution. Patrick is the bdfl of slackware and he makes all decisions about what to include in each release. Late last year the project marked years of nonstop development with the release of slackware 11. Ubuntu, but rather a larger linux distribution performance comparison. When comparing arch linux vs slackware, the slant community recommends arch linux for most people. With the difference in package managers one distribution may have fewer packages readied than the other. Slackware was created by patrick volkerding of slackware linux, inc.
New users often start with stable, then move on to testing as they learn more about the system, and perhaps eventually graduate to sid if they are comfortable being out there. Slacks installation is easier than arch s, but the package manager makes you do a lot more. Slackware also aims to give a complete system which includes a lot of software you wont find packaged in other distros by. This allows them to be written to a usb stick, which can then be booted and used as the install source. Akamai the leading global content delivery network have generously provided us with extensive global content caching and internet routing performance enhancements, allowing us to keep the site up, even at peak times. Arch vs slackware for a couple of years, slackware was my distro of choice.
This release brings along multiple changes on the fronts of stability and security. My laptops over many years have typically run arch. Arch versus slackware articles, guides add comments. I would just like to have a nice discussion about pacman vs. In the questionwhat are the best linux distributions for desktops. For people who dont like to wait, slackware has a current branch that updates packages as they are being tested for stable release and stays rather fresh. The only difference to other distro is that slackware is installed in text mode. Note i installed gentoo and have worked through a lot of issues. Debian testing vs fedora vs arch the leading glock forum. Slackware linux is the most ancient living linux distribution, considered the first choice for real, or for old school, hackers and most professional sysadmins, i think slackware is the safest and faster linux distribution.
Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live cdusb medium based on slackware linux. Many people are saying gentoo should be after slack. Nov 04, 2004 to paraphrase one of the best star trek. Feb 19, 2016 in order for me to replace slackware, id expect. Originally based on softlanding linux system, slackware has been the basis for many other linux distributions, most notably the first versions of suse linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution that is still maintained slackware aims for design stability and simplicity and to be the most unixlike. Ive also use debian and some of its derivatives such as sidux, mint, kubuntu, ubuntu, and corel linux, and a few of the bsds. However, i am beginning to tire of always having to compile programs. On many sites there are a lot of information about ubuntu or its successor, mint, these distributions are excellent, very good for those who have never seen anything on linux, but maybe someone could be more interested in having a. I did previously use arch for a few years, but when systemd arrived in its base packages, i wanted to find something else. For the last 5 years ive been using gentoo as my main os, however recently portage doesnt seem to want to install anything major issues with installing libreoffice libreofficebin installs fine im not the only one with issues and i loved gentoo because of the cflags and useflags but its unusable at the.
Slackware also aims to give a complete system which includes a lot. Also there is an aptget workalike, call slaptget or something similar, that will fetch slackware packages off of the internet for you. I landed a sweet book called redhat for dummies, which came with a dvd. The distribution is best known for its nofrills, minimum customizations approach to applications like kde. Patrick volkerding has announced the release of slackware linux 14.
We have several faqs that you can use to answer your questions. Sep 02, 2016 slackwares init system is a hybrid of system v and bsd methods. I was never completely satisfied with it i craved bigger repository and package management but for a long time it was the best i could find. I was just wanting some input from all of you arch users to see if this is worth my while. I appreciate arch, especially their documentation, but i see no use for it. Linuxonandroid a range of linux distros for your android device brought to you by. Its also notorious for its reluctance to switch to new version of. The official release of slackware linux by patrick volkerding is an. Slackware and arch linux are both communitydriven minimalist distributions.
I mean, ubuntu combines the friendliness of mdksusefedora and other rpm based distros and the powerful package management of debian it basically is debian. Slackware live edition deviates as little as possible from a regular slackware boot. Arch linux vs slackware detailed comparison as of 2020 slant. May 11, 2011 a lot of linux users steer clear of slackware because its a challenge to administer and use. If youve never installed slackware or used a distribution that makes use of a nongraphical installer. If youre familiar with those, you should feel right at home. By mike saunders linux format issue 119 21 june 2009. Eventually youll get the system set up with a nice gui. Arch linux uses the pacman or in some spins, such as antergos, pacman xg which uses the good precompiled package system while gentoo uses the portage manager which makes packages from source code.
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