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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    just ignore him - look at his website link - he's a java programmer for god's sake.

  2. Re:Gentoo by clymere · · Score: 2, Funny
    Gentoo has hands-down the least intuitive install process I've ever seen.

    Anything that doesn't autoboot into an install process of one sort or another, and instead gives you cryptic messages of how exactly one might conceivably achieve an installation. I actually finished downloading Slackware CD's in the time it took me to figure out the Gentoo install.

    As a newbie I found Slackware to be far easier to install than Gentoo...and for that matter, so -called "user-friendly" distros like SuSE and Red Hat.

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    once you go slack, you never go back
  3. Re:Uhh by nwbvt · · Score: 2, Funny
    And dancing naked through the forest isn't a good way to teach someone calculus.

    See, I too can make irrelevant analogies that in no way benefit the conversation.

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    Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.