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for Slackware on N8x0! Then, N8x0 becomes a really Hacker device. It's sooo much easier to compile and build Slackware packages to every other DPKG/RPM distro.
But it's nearly impossible as there isn't the whole source available to recompile it the Slackware way.

I've used slackware for many years before I started using debian, which I've only used for about a year now. I'm not sure where you get the idea that debian is "poor-quality". It's cool to see another slackware fan though.

It's good to remember that all the extra work you need to go through to make good debian packages is exactly the reason why it's available for so many architectures and devices.

Slackware is more like *BSD than any other Linux distro; it modifies some things to be more BSD-like, but aside from that, tries to keep configuration exactly how the software creator intended. Debian, in contrast, tries to make everything fit together in the debian way -- it's laid out very differently from a linux from scratch system, while I think slackware is similar. It's been a long time since I used Slackware, though!

The other big difference between slackware and debian/fedora and so on is dependency checking; slackware does not do it. Basically, it's much easier to ruin your entire system by installing the wrong thing.

The "quality" comment is either pathetic trolling or a deserved snipe over the recent openSSL fiasco.

Both
In fact, I do not like the way Debian team is patching all software, I do not like the dependence checking (that leads to installing 1Gb of dependencies to just have a small text editor).

I love the KISS developped in slackware: all is pretty simple and follow as close as possible the upstream development.

How's that? With Slackware, you can download, compile, and install whatever you like. I've never found any limitations.

There's really nothing stopping someone from getting Slackware working on the tablet as well as Debian works. You just need two things:
1) A Slackware rootfs compiled for ARM w/ EABI, little endian
2) and a quick look at how I hacked Debian into place the first time for some ideas: http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...tle=Debian-old

The reason I chose Debian was because of the number of packages already compiled for ARMEL and the fact that I personally like apt.
If anyone does get it working I'd love to hear about it.

-John

I'd 2nd Slax been ported to the N8x0, would look to easily port BackTrack on to the N8x0

I'm currently working with ~5 different Linux distro's {CentOS/Unbreakable Linux/RHEL, Debian, and Slax} and would prefer to limit the number down until I master at least one of them.

I've run Debian and much prefer Slackware because of its few selection of software, where I know every package by it's given name and what it does.
I don't like to have every feature set/package installed and lost the overview, because of typing 'apt-get install packagename' and forget to be accurate.
In Slackware I must be accurate or nothing works. But after that learning phase I know what I do.

Edit: I think OpenMoko will be better suited for Slackware, because the system is completely open. You can (re)compile every distribution (if you can).

***cough***
Can I just say all linux distros are linux, it's the whole point of linux.
Use what you like, and if you don't then build your own custom distro, which are great for embedded devices!
I personally like Fedora, but am just as happy with debian,sles,redhat or anything else...as long as you don't make me use emacs ;-)

emacs is also a very good OS