At the moment of writing Slackware Linux 9.0RC3 is just released. This might be a good moment to moment to look what Slackware Linux 9.0 has to offer. But any good article starts off with an introduction . Slackware is one of the oldest distributions around and is well-known for adhering to (well, at least unofficially) the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle. That's right, no graphical installer, no GUI configuration tools and no advanced package manager. But in turn you get a very transparent, stable and fast system.