The best way to keep up with Slackware development issues is to read the Change Logs
(available from the Slackware home page). Slackware aficionados expect releases on an
???it??™s ready when it??™s ready??? schedule, as the Slackware FAQ notes: ???As things are built for
the upcoming release, they??™ll be uploaded into the -current tree. If the -current does not
exist, it probably means we have just released a new version of Slackware.???
Slackware Users
From a purely subjective perspective, my friends who use Slackware tend to be technically oriented,
but not the extreme overclockers and tweakers who might be drawn to Gentoo, for example.
They like Slackware because it works so simply and so well that they believe it gives them more
time to slack.
Slackware users often think of themselves as loners, despite the fact that they all hang out together
at LAN parties and Internet cafes. They like the more purist, less commercial approach of Slackware.
For their personal desktop, gaming box, or small-office server, they see no need for the graphical
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tools that you get with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux systems. They are comfortable
with commands and man pages.
I??™ve often heard users refer to Slackware as being easier to use than other Linux distributions.
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