I love that the first linux distro I ever used, and the one that I used for the longest, is still based. I still remember installing slapt-get just to get a taste of having a decent/built-in software repo. I kinda miss having to compile everything before installing it, but know it'd become sickening after a few hours, lol. Good times. If I didn't have CentOS, then Slackware would probably still be the daily-driver.
I installed Slackware from floppies back in the day. Slackware stands apart for me in that every software package is built from as-released sources without modification.
And no systemd.
Hahahaha! I remember being so frustrated. I couldn't afford enough floppies to have a full copy of the distro (I was in like, Gr. 9 and my parents didn't want to buy more), so I'd be formatting/filling a couple floppies on a different computer while the one was installing. When I figured out how to do a netinstall my brain almost exploded.
*edit: the thing that will always stand out for me is their meticulous attention to detail and stability. It's just absolutely rock-solid stable and very straight-forward in its design.
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