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Trying out #slackware on my old laptop today for the first time in forever. Impressions? It's exactly as I remember it 20+ years ago, except now everything works out of the box.
Two things I noticed right off: no systemd (or related dependencies) anywhere in sight, and LILO.
I've always been irritated by the systemd-ification of the linux ecosystem, so it's always nice when I don't see it, and I've never really understood how to work with GRUB, so LILO is really appreciated!
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Slackware gets a lot of hate for being "outdated", but at first look, most packages aren't really any older than something like debian stable, and several like xscreensaver are much newer.
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@animone if you jump to the slackware 15.0-current you will see the packages are up-to-date as in archlinux. Also grub is now as default and run each kernel upgrade, no more needed to run it manually
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