On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:16:50PM +1000, gnudev wrote: > I would like to know some things about Slack, like if it has a package > manager,
It does, for its own Slackware package format (.tgz). It's minimalist, but does the job well. Don't expect to download RPMs or debs and have them work on your Slackware system, though, which is a big drawback. > can I adjust my video text mode (I like 100x40) This is a kernel thing, independent of your distribution, so yeah, Slackware will do it. I think the kernel config option is labelled 'VGA mode selection' or something like that. > can I use an ISDN connection with it Probably. Slackware should have packages to do the ISDN stuff; if it doesn't, you can always download the source code for the ISDN packages and compile it yourself. See the ISDN howto[1] for more info. Note that this applies to anything that you want to get working on Linux. > is it stable with the 2.4 kernel option I'd hope so :) (i.e. 'most probably') > are there any major high points of Slack over others? Yeah, it's simple. It's _really_ simple. It's got a really simple installer, and a really simple package management system, and after you've installed it, that's it -- there's your Linux distribution. There's very little else to learn. I used Slackware a few years ago, and I had no idea how to upgrade its packages then (if you _could_ upgrade packages). Slackware 8 may have a package upgrading feature; if it doesn't, then once you've installed it, that's it, you're own your own. My 2c: If you want to seriously learn Linux, Slackware is a great way to get started, because it's simple, and you mostly follow distribution-independent ways to understand how Linux works (e.g. reading the HOWTOs). If you love grabbing sources and compiling everything, Slackware is also pretty good; but other than that, I think that one of the more mainstream distributions (Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian) will suit you better. 1. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
