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The Stealth Desktop Part III
uninet writes "In the third installment of the Stealth Desktop series about Slackware Linux, Eduardo Sánchez builds upon the previous steps of Part I and Part II. Continuing where those parts left off, he introduces the subjects of user, font and printer management in Slackware using KDE."
Slackware is a great distribution and very well-suited for custom servers and *nix fans. I have purchased Slackware CDs and have a machine in my home with Slackware 10.0. I have also met people running their small business only with Slackware. It is also a great distribution for experimentation and for learning the inner workings of GNU/Linux.
try the google cache
If you don't learn from history,
then you are an idiot by definition.
--- Vadim Yasinovsky
IMO, these guides are useful for general Linux users who want a guide to various tools on their desktop.
Slackware users, on the other hand, tend to prefer a more terminal/console-centric view, so the usefulness of this guide to anyone using Slackware for, as I've usually seen it, a server of some kind [printer, file, FTP, web], would probably do better to read some other documentation.
Just my $0.25.
It's only an insult if it's not true.
Exactly -- there are plenty of comments in all the config files, and the way Slackware startup works is easier for a n00b to understand than most Linux distros {in the same sort of way that 6502 machine code is easier for a n00b to understand than Z80 machine code, if that isn't showing my age}.
I started out with Debian, found it a bit awkward {I was fine at the command line, but X, which I wanted to get into, was an absolute mystery to me}; and went with Mandrake instead. It let me install both KDE and GNOME, plus a few other window managers just to be sure; I found KDE was my favourite. And I gradually twigged onto how the graphical tools were causing changes in the config files. By the time I knew I'd outgrown Mandrake, I was more confident about returning to Debian. Since then, I have played with Slackware, and I really do kind of like it; it's just that my Debian system really hasn't given me cause to think about moving on, and changing distros just for the sake of it would be a violation of the KISS principle that underlies Slackware.
But if Slackware gets something really cool that Debian doesn't, I'll certainly consider it seriously.
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Yes,
:)
Swaret I believe is similar to that - remote dl of packages from multiple repositories, handles dependancies etc etc..
Personally I've moved to gentoo - used slackware for many years, and if I'm ever sick of gentoo, slack would be my first choice