Subj : Re: NetBSD 10
To   : Gamgee
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Apr 03 2024 02:57:12

  Re: Re: NetBSD 10
  By: Gamgee to Arelor on Tue Apr 02 2024 08:06 pm

 >  Ar> Everything else is either too effort intensive to run
 >  Ar> reliably, serves a too specific niche (ie. special distributions
 >  Ar> for special tasks) or has unpredictable development paths.
 >
 > I think that's a little too broad.  Slackware has none of those drawbacks,
 > except possibly the variable devel/release cycles.

Slackware is the Linux distribution I like the most, mainly because it has a bit of a BSD feel. Still it suffers a bit from a mix of "too effort intensive to run" and "unpredictable development paths".

I mean, if you want to use it for anything semi-serious and base Slackware does not have you covered, you will end up compiling any third-party component from source alongside its dependencies yes or yes. Slackware fans have lots of automated tools for doing this and most work great, but having to recompile every single updated package sucks balls. If you have a fleet of computers it gets tedious very fast. There are nice projects that let you build and use your own binary package repositories (look up my article about Slackrepo in Linux Magazine) but at this point you are in the "too effort intensive to run" category.
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