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An Old Hacker Slaps Up Slackware

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nothing-but-love-for-my-first-distro dept.

cdlu writes "What do you get when you mix an old hacker with an old distribution? A good old review of the recently released Slackware 10.2." Joe Barr over at Linux.com (owned by the same company as Slashdot) lays down his thoughts on everything from the install to reliability and user loyalty.

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  1. It's here by chipster · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://workaround.ch/index.html

    And the maintainer is fantastic. I deal with him often.

    1. Re:It's here by chipster · · Score: 2, Informative
      Today I run UbuntuPPC - do you recommend Slackintosh over that, or; what are Slackintosh's highlights?

      That's a good question. I'm fond of both distros :-)

      The way I see it, UbuntuPPC gives that nice, Ubuntu/Debian feel on PPC platforms. Slackintosh gives that nice, Slackware feel on PPC platforms.

      A colleague of mine has even ported GNOME for Slackintosh/PPC: http://gsb.freerock.org/download/ports/

  2. Re:Seems like a basic review of a basic Linux by ponds · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just because almost everyone who uses it on the desktop happens to have a neckbeard doesnt make it a bad desktop distro.

    Where does this review say it's not for the desktop? It says it's not for everyone, which I certainly agree. But it makes a great desktop OS for its very niche userbase.

  3. Re:Seems like a basic review of a basic Linux by stanthegoomba · · Score: 2, Informative

    Depends who's "desktop" you're talking about. Slackware us actually easier to use for those of us who like to have more control over our systems--Slack's initscript setup is so simple to manage compared to the mess of symlinks and directories found in most other distros, and its package management system is very unobtrusive and understandable compared to the complciated GUI setups, distro-specific patches and dependency lists. That said, Slackware always comes with the latest KDE and makes a fine distro for newbies provided you set it up for them beforehand--not having all the extra layers makes it more reliable and less likely to require maintenance. It's also much faster on old hardware compared to the likes of Ubuntu.

  4. Re:I like Slackware's minimalist approach, but... by amliebsch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out slapt-get. It works pretty much like it sounds.

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