Alan Connor wrote:

> But I wasn't. And there's no point in going into this kind
> of detail with a newbie, nor is it even appropriate to the
> discussion.

Yeah sorry, thought to myself "offtopic" when I was writing it. Just
thought it might interst some people. I know it does not really have
anything to do with slackware either, but you guys like to soak up info
nope?

> Tell me. When you see a sign that says:
>
>
> SLOW
>
> Cattle Crossing
>
>
> do you like around for slow cattle?

Its usually me helping/shoving the cows accross the road :-)

I like cows. I used to have website called Fluffy Cows. Long time ago.

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:21:13 +0000, kitt wrote:

> Hi - been thinking about changing linux distro. I had a look a the
> slackware site, but it seems very 'bare bones' compared to suse, gentoo,
> fedora core etc. Is this OS just for pros? or can it be used by beginner
> home users like me?
>
> thnaks
No

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On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:21:13 GMT, kitt wrote:
> Hi - been thinking about changing linux distro. I had a look a the
> slackware site, but it seems very 'bare bones' compared to suse, gentoo,
> fedora core etc. Is this OS just for pros? or can it be used by beginner
> home users like me?
>

If you have been using linux long enough to be considering changing
distros, you shouldn't have much problem at all. Slackware may have
a reputation for being 'bare bones' or 'difficult' but I have found
it to be the easiest distro to run for my home use (desktop and
laptop).

It is easy to upgrade, I installed Slackware 9 on this laptop when I
bought it and transitioned to 9.1, 10, 10.1 and now -current all
without headaches. (and without ever having to reformat etc.)

I find it much easier to install and later remove software with
Slackware because the package format DOESN'T try and micromanage
everything. I really hated when my old RPM based distro would
automatically try and downgrade packages or install irrelavant
things because the packager prefered it that way.

Slackware may be bare bones compared to say Debian, but Slackware
comes on 4 disks (2 binary, 2 source basically) and not whatever
Debian is currently 28+ cds, maybe, for debs and source? Slackware
makes it easy to install new apps from the source, much easier than
many of the heavily patched distros.

Give it a try, if you don't like it you can always switch back.

Brad



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On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:48:37 -0000, Chiefy wrote:
> 20 Aug 2005 15:21 UTC, kitt typed:
>> Hi - been thinking about changing linux distro. I had a look a the
>> slackware site, but it seems very 'bare bones' compared to suse, gentoo,
>> fedora core etc. Is this OS just for pros? or can it be used by beginner
>> home users like me?
>
> Slackware is great. Looks a bit rough round the edges but it's very well
> put together. No more difficult than any of the other distros.
>

Well, if your Slackware setup looks rough around the edges maybe you
ought to change your window manager and give enlightenment a
try...it is great for eye-candy.

Brad


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kitt wrote:
> Hi - been thinking about changing linux distro. I had a look a the
> slackware site, but it seems very 'bare bones' compared to suse, gentoo,
> fedora core etc. Is this OS just for pros? or can it be used by beginner
> home users like me?
>
> thnaks
I have found Slackware the EASIEST distro to get running. gentoo drives
me nuts, redhat/fedora: ack!, mandrake/suse: good grief.

with slack, it takes no time at all to get a basic system running at the
command line. that way, your up and a little research and education
will suffice to get it customized to your liking.

On 2005-08-25, Bradley Reed <reedb@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:21:13 GMT, kitt wrote:
>> Hi - been thinking about changing linux distro. I had a look a the
>> slackware site, but it seems very 'bare bones' compared to suse, gentoo,
>> fedora core etc. Is this OS just for pros? or can it be used by beginner
>> home users like me?
>>
>
<snip>
>
> Slackware may be bare bones compared to say Debian, but Slackware
> comes on 4 disks (2 binary, 2 source basically) and not whatever
> Debian is currently 28+ cds, maybe, for debs and source? Slackware
> makes it easy to install new apps from the source, much easier than
> many of the heavily patched distros.
>
Yes, that's a great advantage:
With my new computer it was a breeze to compile the driver for an onboard NIC.
Kernel-source, headers etc are there with a basic install.
You want find that with those friendly distros.


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email: micr at zeelandnet dot nl
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Alan Connor wrote:
> David Jenkinson <cow@dow.uklinux.net> Wrote:
>
>>>Alan Connor wrote:
>
>
>>>Slackware uses BSD initiation scripts, instead of SYS5, but
>>>this is not a big deal. Different package managers are found
>>>on different distros, but those, as well as init, are just
>>>programs.
>>
>>Been playing with NetBSD recently, and the initiation scripts
>>are not quite like slackware's. I've not had much to do
>>with other distributions, but correct me if I'm wrong, they
>>put the scripts for each run level in a directory for that
>>runlevel. Slackware has everything in rc.d, and runs them by
>>going through a few control scripts that run the services and
>>set things up if the the file to do it is executable.
>>
>>NetBSD (don't know bout Free/Open) has an rc.d full of scripts
>>like slackwares, but they are controlled from an rc.conf. To
>>make something run, a line such as
>>
>>service=YES
>>
>>would do it. There's an /etc/defaults/rc.conf as well, which
>>sets a lot of these up, (Never alter) and you can just turn em
>>off in /etc/rc.conf if you don't want them. The scripts in rc.d
>>have a few lines at the top such as:
>>
>># PROVIDE: apache REQUIRE: DAEMON KEYWORD: shutdown
>>#
>># You will need to set some variables in /etc/rc.conf to start
>># Apache:
>>#
>># apache=YES apache_start="start" # set to "startssl" to allow
>># HTTPS connections; # this variable is optional
>>
>>Similar in that theres a big directory full of scripts, but the
>>control over running them is completly different. Slackware has
>>Slackware initiation scripts :-)
>>
>>Its All Unix(tm).
>
>
> If I was addressing an experienced user like you, instead of
> a newbie, I would have said: Slackware has a BSD *style* init,
> rather than than a SYS5 *style* init, which most of the other
> distros have.
>
> But I wasn't. And there's no point in going into this kind
> of detail with a newbie, nor is it even appropriate to the
> discussion.
>
> Tell me. When you see a sign that says:
>
>
> SLOW
>
> Cattle Crossing
>
>
> do you like around for slow cattle?
>
> :-)
>
> AC
>
Where I live Cattle are slow at crossing the road

The

Slow
men working

is true too




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