Interesting; Slackware was my first distro (dozen floppy disks) as well. I too am interested in not having policykit or much of the modern desktop stuff.
I think it still has them, but I can pretend not to care about them because I don't have to set them up, which I would have had to do on Gentoo. You literally just install Slackware and it works.
It can skip the "modern" desktop crap though, that's cool. They don't distribute Gnome anymore, so it doesn't cram hundreds of libwhythefuckisthisalib and libgnomewhythefuckisthisagnomelib and their dependencies on the drive, and all the KDE stuff is nicely tucked away so you don't have to install it.
I remember when Slackware fit on a single 3.5" floppy. There was a second disk, but you only needed that if you wanted to install X, and why would you want X when you had virtual terminals you could just switch between?
Thanks for making me feel young :) When I first used Slackware, I think the base set was 13 floppies, and that didn't include networking or X. This was before insmod/modprobe and I had to re-compile the kernel once I'd saved up the 80 pounds to buy a sound card. The compilation took the whole night on my 486, and I needed several attempts before I got it working. Kernel 1.1.59 I think.
