Slackware 9.1RC 2 Out, Mandrake 9.2 Soon

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 24, 2003 @12:42PM from the distro-news dept.

Colin writes "The founder of Slackware, Patrick Volkerding, released version 9.1 RC-2 of the upcoming Slackware. Good ol' Slack comes with new versions of packages while the addition of the Swaret tool adds dependency checking on Slackware for the first time! Here is an enthusiastic preview of Slackware 9.1 with plenty of screenshots." And pacc points out that Mandrake 9.2 will soon be ready, but only for Mandrake Club members at first. "But it will soon come to a mirror near you(TM). Though by choosing to distribute it with BitTorrent, do they effectively limit the downloads for a limited release?"

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menus, not text based by breman · 2003-09-24 13:56 · Score: 5, Informative

Hello fellow Slackware users and newcomers, just a few comments to help clarify a few things.

Slackware 9.1 comes in two CDs and it's Installation is text-based.

I would personally describe this as a menu based installation. ie: use arrow keys to select packages/options.

The only snag might be that the user will need to use the command line and not extremely user-friendly fdisk application to create partitions for Slackware.

cfdisk is also available which is menu based.