completely agree with your reason. I'm a long time Slackware user. I discovered Slackware cicra 1995 or so and throught out the years tried different distributions only to go back to Slackware for its simplicity. Many of the O'reilly books talk about the contests of various config files for NAMED, DHCP, etc..... and Slackware just does not deviate from these. Outside of the Slackware installation, upgrading new packages can be done from the raw tar-balls. Never having to wait or build RPMs or other cryptic incarnations just made things easier, faster, and me a better Linux admin when I had to diagnose issues in other distributions.