What I meant was, Debian is different. The CDs are full of stuff, or you can use the NetInstall and download them all. As in, would Slackware have the same ability as Debian, if there were more packages avilable?

And technically you could add a repository to Slackware's tools allowing you to install packages that aren't usually there. SUSE does this too, you can add FTP and HTTP servers to YAST2 and then use it to download and install more packages than on the CDs and DVDs.

I should probably get my Debian box going again, though I don't really have the space right now.