Hi Shannon: Glad to hear the name Slackware around the group. This group seems to favor Redhat like distros. Slackware was also the first distro that I install permanently in my computers. I used it until about 1999 - 2000? when John Hebert told me that he was experimenting with Gentoo. I decided to give it a shot and that is all I have ever used since. As I recall Slackware is quit a bit different when dealing with init scripts. The installation is very easy I believe. What might be something to overcome by new Linux users is the ncurses interface. It can be intimidating if you are used to an Apple GUI. Does Slackware 10 still uses ncurses? I know 9 still did.
Got Slack? Alvaro Zuniga One cool thing that. On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 05:30, Shannon Roddy wrote: > Just to let you folks know, I have been using slackware 10 on two > boxen and I love it so far. More stable/reliable than Redhat and so > far, it has all the bells and whistles that I could want. I am > surprised that a "stable" linux distro aimed at servers and stability > more than new features also supports some of the new hardware I am > using. I just put together a AMD 64 box which has some really fancy > sound card stuff, GigE, etc. and it all works straight off of the > install with no extra modules provided by me. This mobo is really > new, so I am happy it works without a hitch. The last time I tried a > piece of hardware this new with redhat, I ditched it and made the new > hardware into a windoze box. Hell, the surround sound even works - > now I just need to get 4 speakers + sub for Linux! > > Why did I ever leave slackware for Redhat!!!??? Slack was the first > distro that I ever ran. In '95 or so it was "the best" and I am > starting to think it may still be "the best." Of course, it all > depends on what your idea of the best is... The install is not as > easy as Redhat/Suse/etc., but it is easier than gentoo or debian. I > think I am going to roll out slack to replace my redhat servers. > > Shannon > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
