Wander- I find slackware a lot easier to use than Debian, and that is going all the way back down to the 3.X days of slackware, up till then the floppies where a nightmare. Even now Debain drives me nuts.
Mike- I have a pretty complete set of freevo packages for slackware at http://tgz.eng.ua.edu/slackware-10.1/ . Some of the stuff is do for an upgrade, but hat is what my slackware box is running on. Running in to issues send up a flare. Evan On 7/3/06, Wander Winkelhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/3/06, mike lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to all those who commented. Now I'm even more confused than before > ;-). > > > Choosing a distro is like choosing a car, some like brand X, some like brand > Y, some want good miles/galon, others want big cars (ie. SUV's) > You can listen to a hundred people and they'll all recommend a different > distro. > There is only one way to be sure that you like a distro: use it. (In > contrast to cars, trying distro's is free!) > > > > Tha fact that i'm using matrox hardware kinda means I *have* to > > compile the kernal anyway. This in itself is not a joyous thing for > > me, especially on a new system as It wlaways takes me about 5 compile > > and recover attempts to remember all the 'special' changes I had to > > make to get not just my matrox running, but the usb hacks to get my > > dvico card's usb remot working, and the special hacks required to get > > my usb dvd burner working, and the special hacks to get my dvico dvb > > card working also. All of which so far (in the last 2 years at least) > > still haven't made it into a mainstream build. > > > Do yourself a favour, make a CD which contains all the patches you need and > the .config of the kernel and label it "Required Linux patches for kernel > X.Y.Z". And throw it in the safe (or if you're like me, the drawer) > > > No one voted for it, debian sarge got one vote and slackware got 2. I > > won't be using debian as I've heard most of my hardware is even harder > > to get going than with a gnereal linux distro. > > > I'm confused, you think that Slackware is easier to use than Debian? Either > a lot has changed since I last used Slackware, or you are wrong ;-) > > > [..] my shitty hardware :(. [..] > > Isn't this your problem? And not the distro? > > Regards, > Wander. > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
