Try again a few years later

[Adam Myrow]

I'd say that it really depends on what you are doing.  If you know you 
will be storing a lot of stuff in /home, make it big.  Otherwise, make it 
small.  For me, personally, I like to have a very large /usr/local 
partition, because I compile a lot of stuff.  I chose Slackware, and it 
doesn't offer a lot of pre-built packages compared to other distributions. 
My main reason for sticking with Slackware is the Speakup support out of 
the box, and the simple installer.  I also like learning how things work, 
and with Slackware, you get to do a lot of that.  If you don't plan on 
compiling a lot of programs yourself, then either have no /usr/local 
partition, or a smaller one.  Or, you could just put everything on one big 
partition, and have another for swap.  It's mostly a matter of personal 
taste.