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Why Slackware Still Matters
An anonymous reader writes "In a rebuttal to the recent opinion column "Does Slackware still matter?" at Linux Watch, cRaig Forrester provides insight into Why Slackware DOES still matter--and not just to "hard-core group of hobbyists" or "highly professional" Linux server administrators--but desktop users and newcomers too."
Agreed. I'm tired of hearing this "bloat" complaint. With *nix bloat is in the eye of the beholder. Some users might consider k3b to be needless bloat, I don't. Likewise many might think including any other window manager to be bloat, but I like my fluxbox, thank you very much. Why not just say "it includes a lot of software I don't want"? Calling that bloat is a bit insulting to the distro - just because you don't such-and-such doesn't mean other people don't.
Now, compare this to bloat on Windows where two suites of similar apps that do much the same thing as another are of widely varying sizes, say, 600 mb versus 75 mb. And the much smaller suite is far more stable.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.