Importance of Slackware: A Short Essay
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No Corporate overlord, it's a community driven distro

Good for older computers

Begat TinyLinux       http://tiny.seul.org/en/ 
and Basic Linux 3.5   http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/
and DarkStar Linux    http://www.darkstarlinux.ro/en/content/download (defunct)

also derived VectorLinux including Vector Linux 7.1 Light:

http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-7.1/iso-release/VL-7.1-LIGHT.iso

see also: http://cubexyz.blogspot.ca/2016_02_01_archive.html
          http://cubexyz.blogspot.ca/2017/02/

slackware uses a BSD-style init which has good compatibility with sysvinit, 
probably the best choice for Linux traditionalists

VectorLinux Works with old Loki games when using the Loki_Compat libraries