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IIRC slack is among the oldest of the linux distros. It's really not meant for beginners unless your willing to do some hard work up front learning linux. User friendliness is not high on the slack developer's agenda; it's just not what it is about. It is probably one of the fastest linux distros that you'll find and is definitely about customizing, configuring and tweaking using command line tools all of which can be frustrating for newbs.
For someone new, rh or mandrake is a better choice for most. Debian is also excellent but the install for anyone not familiar with linux is a bear and generally acknowledged to be so by those in the linux community. There are many excellent debian based distos that take the install hassle out of debian but retain its good features. Libranet is one but you gotta pay for that as mentioned above.
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