Ignoring a short play date with Red Hat around ’95, my first Linux love was Slackware. Slackware was fast and awesome but it somewhat lacked in the package discovery department. I installed most things from source and after learning about all the bad things that can happen when you install new versions of software on top of the old, I setup a package manager, but Slackware still lacked a central package repository. The central source repository led me to switch to Gentoo. Being able to just install things without having to find the source code online first was great, but again I grew tired. The long compile times eventually wore me out and this time the switch was made to Ubuntu. Ubuntu was nice in a everything-just-works sort of way, but now, some 6 years later, it doesn’t do what…
