Short comparison of two linux distributions
Slackware Patrick Volkerding created Slackware, a Linux distribution, in 1993. It was based on the Softlanding Linux System and is the oldest distribution maintained. Slackware aims to be the most "Unix-like" Linux distribution in terms of design stability and simplicity. It makes as minimal changes as possible to upstream software packages and aims not to anticipate use cases or preclude user decisions. Slackware, unlike most modern Linux distributions, does not offer automatic dependency resolution of software packages. For setup and management, it relies on plain text files and a small set of shell scripts. Slackware is available for the IA-32 and x86_64 platforms, including an ARM port. Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux was initially created by Daniel Robbins under the name Enoch Linux. Later, the name "Gentoo" was chosen to reflect the possible performance improvements of machine-specific optimization. The goal of Gentoo Linux was to create a hardware-aware distributio...