Windows Anonymous

One of the biggest barriers to adoption when it comes to Slackware is a real-world package-manager. After all, if everyone wanted to compile everything from source, why not just use Gentoo? Fact is, Slack can be a good intermediate-level distro but it appears (just an opinion here) that Pat Volkerding & company don't much care about adoption rates, content with the proportionally-shrinking userbase they have. No 64-bit until this last summer, and they held on to the 2.4-series kernel for the longest time. Hey, fellas? Sometimes progress isn't a bad thing; sometimes a little judiciously-applied forward motion can make a good thing great.