Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
> But with Slackware, it seems it could be argued that "factory preset"
> means using ext2/3 for your "root" filesystem, and lilo as you boot
> loader, neither of which it seems you've done.

For me, a system with LILO, ext2 and 2.4 kernel is a system of hell,
coz i have a notebook with plenty of hw (namely wireless card) that is
only supported in 2.6, AFAIK.

> but it puts you squarely in the "tweakable" end of the scale before your
> system ever boots. There's some work that you need to do just to get
> the system running. It's my opinion that you'll find Slackware's worth
> the effort, though. The system should serve you well, once you have it
> running to your specifications.

The truth is that every operating system works well once it's
customized. However, not all systems are customizable to such extent
(Gentoo perhaps?), i agree...