The fact that most commercial applications are created specifically
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux or, to a lesser extent, SUSE distributions, and won??™t just run outof-
the-box on Slackware, makes Slackware an even harder sell for corporate environments.
Using Slackware as a Development Platform
Slackware has long been a preferred platform for developing open source software. It contains a
large set of libraries and includes nearly every tool you could want for developing applications.
There are special spin-off projects for Slackware developers as well, such as the Slackware for ARM
processor project for developing embedded Linux applications (www.armedslack.org).
Because Slackware is a clean, basic Linux system, applications that run in Slackware will run on
most other Linux systems as well. In other words, you won??™t be encouraged to add a lot of special
Slackware hooks that would prevent software from being portable across a wide range of Linux,
UNIX, and BSD systems.
Slackware can easily provide an efficient development workstation environment for technical people
because the distribution doesn??™t get in the way of its powerful features. It??™s easy to configure a simple
window manager and not incur the overhead of background processes that try to ???help??? you
when you insert a CD or need software updates.
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