a little history

slackware on arm started by stuart winter in 2002

became an official port of slackware in 2009

lots of info at the video podcast on youtube

why choose slackware

can do minimal installs easy

education

stable and secure

who should avoid slackware

unwilling or unable to read and follow directions

if you think your leet when you use apt instead of apt-get

if you think commands like dd are 'scary'

howto

there is no official port of slackware arm to raspberrypi

i think this is because of raspberrypi has a non standard way of booting compared to most arm devices

community has stepped in

on the slackware documentation project website there are 'manual' install projects

took a while, had to download firmware from the raspberrypi project itself

quite a bit of cleanup

this is the guide if you want slackware on a pi-zero

link to the sarpi project

guy named phil project lead, started in 2012

the sarpi project is also a manual process

even if you don't do this you should look at the website content, this is the way to do a tutorial

after you download the sources this install is exactly like any other slackware install

when you get to the package selection its easy to customize

after install

you have a complete development environment

be prepared to up your search foo

many packages can be built from slackbuilds

The only mistakes you can't learn from are, your own fatal mistakes

Links

http://arm.slackware.com/

https://sarpi.fatdog.eu/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabC1NZDGA3FZXf2hQ-6uyA/featured

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:start

https://slackbuilds.org