Slackware not my most hated anymore

adamb10 · 07-11-2005, 09:46 PM

I tried Slackware before and I admit that I hated the thing before. No Package manager and crappy gnome support along with the 2.4.x kernel told me everything. I however chose to reinstall Slack and am happy to say that it's one of my favorite distros.

I finally found the innerworkings of the distro with the upgradepkg, installpkg, etc. Too bad that Dropline Gnome had to destroy my install though. Now X won't even boot.

Thank you Pat for making a great distro.

XavierP · 07-12-2005, 04:48 PM

Slackware is a great distro, though not for everyone. Dropline messed with my install too

zborgerd · 07-13-2005, 11:26 PM

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Originally posted by adamb10
I tried Slackware before and I admit that I hated the thing before. No Package manager and crappy gnome support along with the 2.4.x kernel told me everything. I however chose to reinstall Slack and am happy to say that it's one of my favorite distros.

I finally found the innerworkings of the distro with the upgradepkg, installpkg, etc. Too bad that Dropline Gnome had to destroy my install though. Now X won't even boot.

Thank you Pat for making a great distro.

Perhaps you could indicate the error that you are getting.

AresXP · 07-14-2005, 12:15 PM

Slackware is great but it's not very good for a newbie...

Instead of using dropline, how about using Gnome::SlackBuild (GSB)? http://gsb.freerock.org/

dosnlinux · 07-26-2005, 05:45 PM

Wow! The first time I ever visit this forum I see a pro-slack post near the top

Glad to hear you don't hate it anymore

CPUFreak91 · 07-28-2005, 02:30 PM

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Originally posted by AresXP
Slackware is great but it's not very good for a newbie..

What! I learned to love and use linux on Slackware. I used red hat 8 for 5 weeks and wanted a new distro. Fedora servers were slow so I tried slackware. Then again I may not be a normal computer user

lunarcloud_88 · 07-30-2005, 05:09 PM

I learned on slack and tried so many... none compare with slackware.
SuSE seems most popular, but that's because its so... i hate to say it.... Windows-y.