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The Stealth Desktop: Sight and Sound With Slackware

Posted by timothy on from the but-slackware's-text-only-right dept.

sombragris writes "Many people think of Slackware as a distribution oriented to servers and experienced users. However, here's an article that shows how to configure sound and the X Window System in Slack, in a newbie-friendly way and oriented towards desktop usage. The article is a follow-up to Part I of the series, where the author introduced his vision of Slackware as a desktop. Enjoy!"

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  1. Re:hmm by Tr0mBoNe- · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    At this point, all programs are easy to install for me... Linux has been on my computers at home for years now. I hate KDE, and do disike Gnome a bit... but if I were to choose, I would take gnome.

    Fluxbox is my primary Window Manager though

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  2. Re:Slack rocks by BigBanana · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    configuring slack is so much easier than Redhat

    ROTFL, that must be the funniest joke I've heard in weeks! The installer "making decisions for you" is called auto-detecting and auto-configuring and these functions are nowadays available in almost every other distro, Slackware being the shining exception. Slack reaches back to the stone age of Linux.