I installed Slackware 8.1. It works lovely.
I tried to install EvilE from the hd but it didn't work from a boot disk and i was to lazy to figure it out so i took my floppy back and put the slack 8.1 cd in.
The installation wasn't such a big deal. It was quite easy, to be honest. A reason might have been that I already partitioned my hd so I didn't have to run the program of evil (c)fdisk. I did a full install because I am extremely lazy and I'm going to a LAN party and we pretty much need a server and my CS clan needs an IRC server, etc, etc. Maybe i'm going to run a forum on it. So much things I can play with, i love it.
Sometimes I still think I want to go back to Mandrake but most of the time I feel really comfortable with Slack. Installing alsa was no big deal.
But there is one question I have: Where can I configure what programs start on boot?