> When I was starting out with Slackware, I did wish for additional package > management utilities but they weren't around back then. Now that I have a > good grasp of the system (and not without quite a bit of pain I must say,
By the way, here is something I'm pretty sure of: if I had a guru helping me out when I was feeling my way around Slackware, it would have been way way way less painful. The guru-apprentice relationship is a very very good way to learn Linux.
Also, if you put together a bunch of experienced users, they learn even faster as a group as they can share their knowledge with one another in a very efficient manner.
Anyway, going back to when I was a Slack greenhorn, the funny thing was that even though I had a hard time with it and kept flirting with Redhat (these were the days of RH 3 and 4 when 'Mandrake' referred to a plant, not a distro), I would always find things about RH than turned me off. In the end (and this took quite a few years), I found myself agreeing with my more experienced - at that time, :-D - friend: Slackware was the way to go.
Subsequent flirtation with distros like Caldera, Mandrake, Stampede, Gentoo and newer versions of Redhat just convinced me to return to Slack and ever since Slackware 8, I have had zero need or desire to try anything else. As for that friend of mine (he's a sysadmin for APEC right now and in addition to Linux and NT, also works with Cisco routers and Solaris boxes from time to time)... he's still very much the Slackware fan.
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