When was this? You know, things have advanced slightly in the past 3 years or so... Slack is still using a 2.4 kernel by default - which is not exactly great for forwards compatibility. And if we're at the point of "well, choose a new kernel", we're already beyond "friendly".
I've installed and used Slack, Debian, Fedora, Vector, SuSE, Knoppix, RHEL, Mandriva, and maybe a couple others in the past year (for work!). If you absolutely require a Slackware, Vector is an appealing choice, moreso than "pure Slackware". I still stand by my statement that Slackware isn't a new-user-friendly distro, especially compared to the other choices available. I'd rather someone do graphical configuration than get frustrated and go back to Windows. I don't know where the "Slackware is the peg for every hole" movement got started, but it's just not true. Judah is correct about one thing - definitely try to make sure the distro you use is one other people can help you with... -DMZ On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 03:22 -0500, J. Milgram wrote: > I'll -3 it. I never understood the "Slackware is hard" bit. Seemed > pretty easy to me when I started, and I'm no rocket scientist. The one > Red Hat install I did failed to impress. So my advice is install > Slackware and be Happy. > > Actually the Correct Answer is: figure out who's going to be giving you > the most help, and install what they're running. > > Judah > > Michael Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Me too - I'll third what Dave and Rich said. Here's a nice blurb on > > Ubuntu (and others): > > http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major > > > > -- David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
