I mapped a random lil town in OpenStreetMap and found out the creator of Slackware lives there..
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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Slackware, my beloved π€
Praise "Bob"!
I want to run Slackware for religious reasons but the "no package management" thing has me prioritizing my Slack over learning how to Slackware (just as Dobbs intended.) For now Fedora will do I suppose.
It has a base installation, slackbuilds (like the AUR, with helpers that resolve dependencies) and you can install flatpak.
I don't ever hunt for dependencies.
But yeah, if you're happy with Fedora, there's absolutely no reason to switch.
Well I do at least want to try it out, the creator is a SubGenius (thus the name "Slack"ware) as am I, so that's reason number one, and SW is less likely to have a canonical moment (like ubuntu ykwim) than Fedora.
That is good to know that you don't have to hunt for the dependencies though because that's definitely one of the biggest things holding me back from trying it yet!
Damn, a subgenius in the wild, don't see that too often.
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I thought Slackware did package management, but not dependency resolution.
It does both, but pretty rudimentary.
Iβve never used Slackware. They just do package management with a bunch of bash scripts?
Yes, the package manager is a bash script.
The installer is a bash script.
The init system is bash scripts.
Same with Github Actions.
A platform purposely made to run bash scripts is using bash? Impossible...
Fuckin A! and it still works.