If Slackware disappeared tomorrow, what would you run?
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View Poll Results: What would you run if Slackware disappeared tomorrow?
Slackware wouldn't disappear, it is open source so someone smarter and less lazy than me would become the maintainer by forking it. The only thing they would have to do is negotiate for the name with PV or rename it to something else like alienware or robbieware or goblinware or piterpunkware.
BTW, 2010 will likely be the year of the micro kernel. I suspect support will only continue to grow albeit slowly at first.
My main gripe historically with Minix 3 deals with the tendency for development to slow significantly when the funding disappears. However, I do believe Minix 3 is on the verge of a major increase in popularity (~ a couple of years) as important elements are added to the operating system, e.g. ELF compatibility. Minix 3's increased popularity will drive development regardless of the funding model.
I'd be interested in FreeBSD, but the lack of DVB support is still a blocking point.
So I would use the last Slackware release as long as it's reasonable.
There's always Gentoo but Gentoo's more dynamic than static and its approach is different to Slack. So for something that is like Slackware I'll go for LFS.
I really don't know. I've been using Slackware since version 3.3 came out in 1997. I tried Linux from scratch but found it very time consuming to build and maintain, although I might give it another shot.
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