Slackware: the immutable rock (1993)
Keywords: Arch History, Philosophy, Software,Slackware In the history of free software, simplicity has always worked as a kind of talisman-word: everyone invokes it, almost no one means the same thing by it. Two projects make this clearer than any manifesto. Slackware and Arch Linux share the same slogan —KISS, Keep It Simple, Stupid— and out of it they built two systems that are nearly opposite. One read simplicity as a rock; the other, as a river. This is the story of that fork, and of why the same word can push you toward such different places. ...