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The Stealth Desktop Part III

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the guides-for-slackers dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Command line examples would be useful by pe1rxq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I always found that Slackware had the best handholding.... Its just in a different place.
    Its not hidding the inner workings in nice GUI interfaces.. It has nicely commented config and startup files and a clear /etc/rc.d directory.

    Jeroen

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  2. Re:Call This A troll. I Don't Care. by NightWhistler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK, I'll feed this troll...

    Slackware is not, and was never meant to be a migration path for Joe Sixpack coming from Windows. We have loads of distros that handle that task a million times better.

    What Slackware is great for is people who like a simple, clean UNIX-like OS on their home machine, and don't want to bother with all sorts of distro-specific tools. It's also great if you prefer to compile your software from source, without having to be afraid to mess up you package management DB. Using Linux is much like riding a bike: try it with training wheels first, move on when you're ready.

    Finally, if we really want to get grandma's, sisters and Joe Sixpack off of Windows, we should probably start promoting KDE as the "OS". It's what they see anyway, and it shouldn't really matter if it runs on top of Linux, BSD, Solaris, whatever...

    OK, done ranting now... feel so much better ;-)

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