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RE: How does it compare to Debian or Arch linux?
by XYZ on Thu 15th Jul 2004 09:54 UTC

I would say that Slackware is similar or a bit faster than Debian overall, but not by much.

I had that same feeling till 10.0 came out. E.g. Ephiphany and Mozilla load relatively slow compared to Debian. I can't find out what it is. (Yep, DMA et al are on).

If you care for a workstation, go with Slackware as it has newer stable packages than Debian and it is easy to get by.

Most people who use Debian on a workstation use testing, it is quite stable (in my experience as stable as Slack) and up-to-date. Besides, Libranet is a good "Debian on the desktop" distro...