On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:07:06 -0500, Scott McMillan wrote:

> While I have found Mandrake to be a very good option for my workstation,
> I'm curious to know how many of you are using Slackware for your
> 'everyday, run-of-the-mill' OS? And those of you that _are_ using it for
> your 'desktop' OS, what are you doing with it?

I use slackware as my desktop, I've used it as production servers too. I
also used to maintain a minidistro for realmedia encoders based on
slackware, and use it for all sorts of experimental and research work.

I sometimes use Debian at a pinch, or SuSe in rare cases (but I am not at
all fond of SuSe), but if I'm using linux, it's usually slack.

FWIW, anyway.


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Scott McMillan <smcm@usa.net> writes:
>
>While I have found Mandrake to be a very good option for my workstation,
>I'm curious to know how many of you are using Slackware for your
>'everyday, run-of-the-mill' OS? And those of you that _are_ using it for
>your 'desktop' OS, what are you doing with it?

I've been using Slackware for my basic computing needs -- e-mail, word
processing, web browsing, etc. -- since 1993. I've also installed a few
servers here at work recently.

--
Mark Cudworth

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:07:06 -0500, Scott McMillan
<smcm@usa.net> probably wrote (unless it was a Kook):
> While I have found Mandrake to be a very good option for my workstation,
> I'm curious to know how many of you are using Slackware for your
> 'everyday, run-of-the-mill' OS? And those of you that _are_ using it for
> your 'desktop' OS, what are you doing with it?
>

Slack on desktop and laptop. Laptop for a client, of course. Desktop I do
graphics work in Gimp with some VMWare emulation.

> I have recently decided that Windoze is too annoying for me, but I have
> found there are some Win apps which I can't seem to replace (I am getting
> involved in digital video editing - takes 1/3 the time to process in
> Windoze apps vs. Kino, etc. in Linux - and I really like Forte Agent as a
> text newsreader), but I'm getting close.
>

Film Gimp/CinePaint?

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"Scott McMillan" <smcm@usa.net> wrote in message
newsan.2004.04.01.04.07.04.664624@usa.net...
> I would appreciate hearing your real-life experiences with whichever
> distro you use as your desktop OS.
>

Have experimented with Redhat, Mandrake and Slackware.

Found Redhat too unfriendly.

Mandrake is easy to install and will get you up and going quickly but taints
itself by splitting up the packages too much and installing far too much as
dependancies. It was, however, my first Linux O/S and I promote it at work
in preference to Red Hat. O/S is still buggy.

At home I use Slackware 9.1 on a Server, desktop and notebook. All dual boot
with Win98SE (to keep the family happy) and their internal modems are used
to connect Slackware to the internet. I find that the O/S is clean, properly
tested with properly integrated packages. As I am still getting to grips
with the simplicity (as opposed to Mandrake's spoonfeeding), I currently
install everything but will eventually acquire the confidence to be able to
remove the packages that I don't use.

Using KDE as window manager and CUPS as the printer system.

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:07:06 -0500, Scott McMillan <smcm@usa.net> wrote:
> While I have found Mandrake to be a very good option for my workstation,
> I'm curious to know how many of you are using Slackware for your
> 'everyday, run-of-the-mill' OS? And those of you that _are_ using it for
> your 'desktop' OS, what are you doing with it?

I've been using it as my only desktop OS for at least a couple of
years. I do everything with it that I used to do with Windows, which
was email, news, web-surfing, development, listening to music. watching
videos, any writing (plain text, HTML, Word documents for uni) and, in
general, learning as much as possible. I'm sure that there are more
things that I do with it, but I can't think of them at the moment.

It also handles all of my server needs on another machine, but that's
for another poll.


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Scott McMillan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First off, I'm not a troll. I have been using Slackware for the last 8
> months or so and really like it. It has done everything I have asked of
> it.
>
> The reason I pose the question is that I have been using Mandrake as my
> desktop OS for ~3 months, while relegating Slackware as my server OS
> (web/email/Samba shares).
>
> While I have found Mandrake to be a very good option for my workstation,
> I'm curious to know how many of you are using Slackware for your
> 'everyday, run-of-the-mill' OS? And those of you that _are_ using it for
> your 'desktop' OS, what are you doing with it?
>
> I have recently decided that Windoze is too annoying for me, but I have
> found there are some Win apps which I can't seem to replace (I am getting
> involved in digital video editing - takes 1/3 the time to process in
> Windoze apps vs. Kino, etc. in Linux - and I really like Forte Agent as a
> text newsreader), but I'm getting close.
>
> I would appreciate hearing your real-life experiences with whichever
> distro you use as your desktop OS.
>
>
> Scott McMillan

I have gone to Slackware since slackware 8 and am still using it. I now use it
for everything. Servers and desktops. It works just fine on my laptop.
It is the only linux version that I have been able to install on every box I
have come across.
I have tried:
Red hat 4, 5.1, 6.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8, & 9.
Caldera 1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, & 3.1.1 (till the SCO fiasco, This was it)
Mandrake 6, 8.1, Master, 9, 9.1, 9.2, & 10
Fedora
SuSE 5.2, & 8.2
Slackware 2.2, 3.6, 8.1, 9, & 9.1
Other versions:
Gentoo
Debian
Lycoris
United
Corel
Tawie
Engarde
Clark connect
Esware
Magnux
Mu linux
Yos desktop
Vector
SotLinux
ArkLinux
FreeBSD

Some of these I must admit; I did not leave on my computers very long as I
either didn't like them or they were just slightly different renditions of
RedHat or some other linux.
Slackware is the only Linux that seems to install with the least hassles and
finds all my hardware first crack out of the box. I find the tools that come
with Slackware to be the easiest for me to understand and use.
I keep downloading and trying all the new Linux versions so I think that means I
have an open mind.

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Everyone should have a chance to try Linux. It's great.
http://www.bclinux.ca/ < running Slackware 9.1 >

On 2004-04-01, Scott McMillan <smcm@usa.net> wrote:

> distro you use as your desktop OS.

I use slack 9.1 as my 24/7 desktop box. Sometimes I fire up an old w98 box
for autocad and promash. BTW, anyone know of a gpl version of visualroute?

nb

In article <pan.2004.04.01.04.07.04.664624@usa.net>, Scott McMillan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First off, I'm not a troll. I have been using Slackware for the last 8
> months or so and really like it. It has done everything I have asked of
> it.
>
> The reason I pose the question is that I have been using Mandrake as my
> desktop OS for ~3 months, while relegating Slackware as my server OS
> (web/email/Samba shares).
>
> While I have found Mandrake to be a very good option for my workstation,
> I'm curious to know how many of you are using Slackware for your
> 'everyday, run-of-the-mill' OS? And those of you that _are_ using it for
> your 'desktop' OS, what are you doing with it?
>
> I have recently decided that Windoze is too annoying for me, but I have
> found there are some Win apps which I can't seem to replace (I am getting
> involved in digital video editing - takes 1/3 the time to process in
> Windoze apps vs. Kino, etc. in Linux - and I really like Forte Agent as a
> text newsreader), but I'm getting close.
>
> I would appreciate hearing your real-life experiences with whichever
> distro you use as your desktop OS.

2 machines running slackware:

turncoat:
windomaker, samba, apache

roach:
dns, firewall, nat

On 2004-04-01, Scott McMillan <smcm@usa.net> wrote:

> While I have found Mandrake to be a very good option for my workstation,
> I'm curious to know how many of you are using Slackware for your
> 'everyday, run-of-the-mill' OS? And those of you that _are_ using it for
> your 'desktop' OS, what are you doing with it?

I don't think there is anything you can do with Mandrake that you could not
do with Slackware. You might have to use a little elbow grease but it
should all be doable.

Slackware is my main desktop OS and has been for about 2 years (whenever
8.1 came out). I use it for all my internet stuff. Email (sylpheed),
usenet (slrn), web browsing (mozilla), irc (xchat or bitchx), game
playing (aisle riot, xgammon, frozen-bubble, tuxracer, neverwinter
nights), correspondence (open office), IM (gaim and gnomeicu or
centericq if in console), bible study (gnomesword), music (xmms).
What more is there. The only thing I go into Windows for is tax time.
If only I could get a linux app for that I would completely reformat.

>
> I would appreciate hearing your real-life experiences with whichever
> distro you use as your desktop OS.

I have tried (besides Window$) RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake, Gentoo, YellowDog,
LinuxPPC, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I currently have on my system, Debian and
ArchLinux as well. I usually have a couple besides Slackware that I am
"just testing out".

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i use slackware 9.1, as a desktop os, but i also use it (as of 2nite) an
ssh serveer, so i can reuse an old computer (slack 9.1 is also on that).


i use kde 3.2.1,
kopete for instant messanging
pan for newreader
opera for web
kmail for mail
konsole for a terminal
konqueror for file browser
noatun for music (with hayes playlist coz the default one is crap)
kwrite for text editor, abiword or kword for word processor