I use Slackware on all of my Linux servers, mainly because like you, its my distro of choice and its the distro that I am very much comfortable with. I don't know if there is a statistics about which distro sysadmins
prefer and use, but on the other Local Linux mailing list that I am in, most of the guys uses Slackware or Debian.
Ah... it's very good to know there won't be a shortage of Slackware people to source for.
I am such a faithful of the Slackware philosophy that I can't even see the point of using slapt-get and other add-on package management utilities. I fiddle around with a lot of different software under Slack, but up to now I still haven't found any good reason to use anything other than the default pkgtools. I get the most peace of mind building my own packages (as easy as 1-2-3 99% of the time if you've read a guide) with the default tarball from the original source, for any package Patrick Volkerding doesn't provide. It also makes the process of fiddling around with source code as effortless as it can get.
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, but once you're over the learning curve, it becomes a real pleasure to work in Slackware), I invariably feel that such utilities actually get in your way.
My two cents about my Linux experience...
> prefer and use, but on the other Local Linux mailing list that I am in,
This is Penguinista, right? Do they have a mailing list you can subscribe to or is it pure Yahoo Groups? Not too fond of the web email interface....
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