GK

George K.

System Administration

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2020

"Slackware is a Linux OS which can actually help you to learn the bash, scripting, and solve issues."

5/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

Is the perfect OS for learning Linux OS.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

It does not have any GUI to do the installation. So if you are not experience Linux before, you have to follow the documentation line by line Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Olle L.

Python Team Lead

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2019

"Take it if you can bite it"

5/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

I cannot be precise at pointing out at something specific because the whole system is made as good as it is possible. It is flexible, it has a great community, it has a bunch of packages and it teaches you to be better in administration and still think before typing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

It is time-consuming to set up the system you want :D But still I'd rather spend some time installing/making packages to have a solid and reliable working station.

Though I had a problems with xfce window manager (does it count?) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Slackware:

I tried not that many distributives (around 5-6) but ended up with Slackware for its stability, documentation and community. You can make your system be anything you like but you need to know what you're doing.

Btw, Slackware team, thank you for your great impressive work! :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Slackware solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used to have Slackware as my working station since university time, so all programs I've developed, all applications I used to have for listening to music, reading docs, working with graphics I had to learn how to install, make it work. Then at work, we had couple of servers with this distributive and to me, it was much easier to set up apache, virtual hosts, DB settings because by that time I knew the os structure.

I control the system and no one else, that's what I realized and along with that you have to understand you are responsible for every step you do, so it would be better to read/learn a bit before diving into a slackware ocean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Stanislav A.

CEO

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2019

"Daily driver and server OS"

5/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

Best thing about Slackware is the stability - install once and forget. Stable or current is beside the point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

Less repos then other OSes. Some niche software needs to be compiled from source. And some - you just can't get. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Slackware:

If you install ubuntu, you will know ubuntu. If you install Arch, you will know Arch. If you install Slackware, you will know Linux.

It's not the user friendlest os ... but I will not change it if possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Slackware solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building servers due to the long term stability. Daily driver due to current branch which gets current software update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UG

Verified User in Gambling & Casinos

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/29/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Its as good as anything else on the market"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

It works well across devices and seems to sync well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

It has little to offer of its competitors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2019

"Not trivial, but extremely reliable"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

I've been using Slackware from high school and that is already for 18 years and still surprised how reliable Slackware is. I have systems with incredible uptime running Slackware. Moreover, Slackware does not come throwing you all the preinstalled unneeded software or asking million times - Do you REALLY want to avoid installing this? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

Configuring Slackware is not trivial and it does sometimes lack support for one or another hardware or feature, but eventually it is added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Slackware:

Try it before saying no and if you run into some problem - do not lay hands down. Trust me - it's worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Slackware solving and how is that benefiting you?

Slackware gives more control over machine than other more user friendly distributions and that is a great benefit when one needs to press everything out from hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Catherine T.

Fba

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/27/2019

"Used slack from previous employments"

5/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

This is much easier to understand and use. User-friendly software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

Nothing much. I like them in future use. Just use slack in your future business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Igor M.

VMware Enterprise | Linux Engineer

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/1/2019

"Slackware Storage & DHCP server"

5/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

Unix-like philosophy, very high security, speed, straight forward, doc pages, stability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

Missing of some needed packages, which are included in Ubuntu, CentOS etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AF

Verified User in Furniture

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2019

"Slackware is stable and fully configurable OS"

4/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

I used Slackware as Internet gateway, firewall, web server and this OS in all situations was trable-free, do his job flawlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

In all situations I installed softwares from sources, as I didn't know automated software installer (like Suse) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AH

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/29/2019

"Better understanding of linux fundamental and OS components"

4/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

The capability and freedom to change and configure and anything and everything with your OS and the potential for learning deeply of each components in Slackware as your OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

being isolated from mainstream linux (debian and redhat based) making installation and implementation for big application such as Corosync, Pacemaker, DRBD making it hard to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2019

"The best learning distro"

5/5

What do you like best about Slackware?

I started out with Slackware, to its core it

Still rings true - you learn red hat you

Learn red hat, you learn suse you

Learn suse - if you learn Slackware you learn linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Slackware?

The only thing really lacking is a good package management system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.