Hello all, The reason I asked about Slackware was that it was my first succesful install. I installed it on an older machine. PII 166 mhz 64meg RAM 8GB HDD. I'm looking for avdice on a distro to use to build another dual boot machine. Probably 2-3 GHZ processor 512meg RAM 80-200GB HDD. Running Xp and Linux, where Linux will run MythTV. I will install a WinTV card and possibly a pcHDTV card. I was considering trying this with Slackware for the learning experience. Does it make more sense for me to install RH or Gentoo or ??? to make this work? Will Slackware be harder to setup?
Thanks Russ M On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, David Zakar wrote: > Sure. Next, take a true random poll of how many people use RH, vs how > many people use Slack. Seriously: Google doesn't give you any sort of > statistically valid way to determine whether Slack or RH is harder to > use. Hell, maybe more experienced users are using Slack to begin with, > because new folks just give up on it. > > Slack's packaging works OK, assuming you're using one to five computer. > That's what Rob seemed to be pointing out - it doesn't scale, at all. > Installpkg doesn't even have dependency checking, which, in 2005, is > pretty pathetic. > > I have no problems using Slackware - because I've been using Linux for > many years. I've used it for projects at work when I thought it was the > best tool for the job (the only semi-modern distro using kernel 2.4). > But that doesn't mean that I think it's a particularly good distro. > > -DMZ (proof that Red Hat apparently _does_ teach you Linux) > > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:39 -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > > > > Seriously: google through the Linux news groups and see how many > > frustrated Slack users there are posting, vs. frustrated RH users > Sincerely, Russ Main
