the most advanced open 3D drivers are from intel. AMD takes the common parts (like most of the mesa code) from intel and add support for radeon GPUs. This helps a lot the driver development. Nouveau people have to that also, but they have first to do guess work to enable the features.
So you are saying that nouveau, with years of missing work and many missing features, compared to the other two GPUs will have more and better features in a few months/years? are you on drugs?:) the other drivers will not stop waiting for nouveau, but any advance by then will help nouveau sooner or later.
also, all drivers support the older card versions, thanks to mesa, that is not a nouveau only feature. Where the hardware is lacking, mesa fallback to software, LLVM or simply optimize it out, sacrificing image quality
i dont know if nouveau will be faster or slower than intel or radeon drivers when they reach the same feature level, but i'm sure that nouveau will be the last of the big three to have most features. that will not change unless nvidia really supports nouveau and mesa to catchup the lost years... looking to their past record and even recent events, that will probably not happen.
i give my kudos to nouveau people for their work, but i prefer to support intel and amd got their work with the community than to support some company that really don't understand linux, the free software ideals and long term support for their hardware.
So you are using open Intel drivers, that are more or less on par with AMD ones (usually lagging a few months from intel, because they share most of the mesa code, its easier to catch up than building ground up), with AMD cards being more powerful and so, faster.
I play linux games (via humble bundle, steam and desura) with AMD open drivers, so i can tell you that they work. If you check phoronix benchmarks, AMD closed and open drivers have a average performance difference of 20%, that isnt perfect, but not bad also...
You say are also using nvidia: -if closed source drivers -> yes, they are faster, yes, they are closed source shit from a company that don't really care about linux, just their money (As Linus said: F*ck you Nvidia) -if open source drivers -> they share the mesa part with all others, but lagging several years, to the point that aren't really usable for most people
Just pick the huge bonus, golden parachutes, stupid merge and acquisitions just to pump the stock, etc, etc and put in on real R&D (not patent waving) and engineering solutions and things might get better!
Actually there many women bomb cases, as in some places, the control points dont have women to do the body search, but even more because their long tunics are good to hide things
The countless US invasions, the protection of dictators like Noriega, Pinochet and even Saddam just because (at their opinion its the less of two evils), the support of Islamic groups like the Taliban, etc, etc. Even today, with the CIA torture jails, Halliburton corruption, wall street and banks frauds show that you have nastiness and corruption all over the top US government and companies.
Probably the US is directly and indirectly responsible of more killings and problems than most of those countries.
People all over the world have the same "Capitalism benefits" as you, even if they are communists, fascists, tribal, etc!! things like jobs (duh!) , homes (double duh!) , clothes ( triple duh!) , electronics (all made in china today... that is communist!!) , computers (even URSS had their own computers!), air travel(duh!) and yes, even internet (call it arpanet, fidonet, AMPRNet or minitel, what ever... arpanet won, but there where alternatives out there)
And yes, cuba have the BEST medical care in the world... and that limited high-tech medical machinery. In cuba everyone have full and free medical support, people around the world travel to cuba to use their medical cares for hard to solve problems (not free for non-residents of course). That doesnt mean that they can cure everything, that mean they give you the best treatment for your problem and long term support for it. No bullshit like, "Take this treatment, the other one a lot better, but is too expensive"... Everyone gets best treatment, not just the rich people.
Huge amount of money will also not give you better medical treatment, just ask Ted Kennedy.
who is full of bullshit now?
stop looking to your own belly and thinking that you are the center of the world. US have good things, but it also have many bad things, just like every place in the world!
you know that you can only use one HW hypervisor? the other on top of the first are using plain virtualization... not that it matters much, running a VM inside a VM is plain stupid!
No Linux distro on the planet uses the stock kernel.
Slackware uses stock kernels
All of them have different locations for many different files.
Slackware puts the files where the app developers want to, they dont move files around, breaking stuff (are you listen redhat/fedora!)
All of them have major patchs to all sorts of 'standard' apps.
Slackware tried to used just the upstream code. Only when there are problem reported and there is a fix in the upstream cvs/svn/git, its is ported to the latest release (or the git version is used)
So yes, there are standard, plain and simple distros... slackware is one of the most stable distros there is by not messing all over
Linux's lack of standardization is repeatedly brought up as one of its largest problems in becoming a more common desktop since software vendors don't want to target a bunch of slightly different distro's to pick up a statistically insignificant portion of the population.
Strange, there are things like static binaries, that work EVERYWHERE... you can also ship the libraries, for a pseudo static binary. But solving that isnt that hard, just have several VMs with the main distros and recompile... yes, its harder than having the source code open and let users/distros developers compile it for you, but that is the price for having closed source.
yes, FUD ! trying to show the worst case possible as a normal, everyday thing is FUD.
1- you CAN compile anything... but that doesn't mean that anyone must do it. Again, only people that really want to do it (developers and gentoo users) will ever do it. Most ubuntu users dont even know what compile is and they use a linux system just fine.
2- a) i'm a slackware user since 1995 and slackware DO have repositories! You have the main ftp for distro packages, you have alienbob packages, you have the slacky repository, rlworkman repository, linuxpackages.net and finally, the slackbuilds repository, where you have build scripts for many softwares (but yes, you can still compile manually if you like!)
b) if you have a package that need a different lib version that you are using, then you are doing it wrong! binary packages are build for one distro/version, should be used on that distro/version. Trying to mix distros or version packages is a great way to have a broken system. Please note that i'm not saying that it doesn't work, most of the time it works fine, but one should ALWAYS prefer distro+correct version packages, and if not available, a source compiled. The above repositories for slackware have many programs compiled for the correct slackaware versions and if not, have the slackbuild ready to quickly compile things. Downloading a random binary from the internet and trying to use it on a random distro is the "windows way", not the "linux way". ps: if you are talking about gnome, forget it, that is a dependency hell... on slackware you need to use a gnome repository (like GSB or dropline) to have matching libs. For other distros its the same thing... binary packages build for set of libraries. NO MIXING... if you mix versions, its a user problem, not distro nor linux problem
3- Linux have 2 "clipboards", that work in different ways... if you dont understand then, its better to install some clipboard management, like klipper, glipper, parcellite, etc and enable the clipboards sync. It will make copy&paste more useful and consistent, specially for windows users. If you are talking about feel and use consistency, try to use the same platform for all apps (kde, gnome, xfce, etc), but as linux have more GUI libraries and no central management, the GUI is more fragment than on windows and mac... but those systems also have different GUI frameworks and so, the exact same problem . For some people that is a problem, for others is a good (promotes competition)
No one in current times, unless its a developer or a gentoo user, will compile X from source
Only a windows user would think that mixing libraries is a good idea to put a program to work, its the fastest way to break a system. Only advanced and knowledge users should try it and only for a very good reason (like trying to support a closed source app... if you have the source, its probably easier and safer to recompile)
Every distro have some form of beta, latest, unstable, -current, etc version, where you have even more update apps if you want. many have external repositories and ftp servers where you can get updated versions, compiled for your system... so even if someone wants a newer version of something, all it needs to know is to use google and read.
lastly there are software that needs to be fine tuned, but no OS is perfect. Windows require huge amount of extra software to be useful and is lacking in many places, MacOSX break many things, lacks others and is not as flexible, linux have incomplete features in some places. Now all depends what you need, what you use, need or not need. The good new is that linux advance faster than the other OS, so one problem for one user last year might have disappeared already today.
and you? did you read the comment? for above sound speed, you are correct, but for above light speed (if possible), the package would time travel and so arrive in the past, before the sending
Do bullets shot faster than the speed of sound arrive before the gun makes a sound? are you serious?!
super-sonic bullets do arrive first, then the sound...that is why they are super-sonic Higher-than-light speeds are needed to to back in time, as Einstein proved (mathematically)... but he also proved that you would need a infinity amount of energy to just reach the light speed and that impossible in the reality to go beyond that
Just in case you dont know, LQ is the oficial slackware forum. Many important slackware users and admins are there. there is also a internal mailling list and the freenode IRC channel. All serve as a feedback for decision making.
you clearly don't know what you are talking about!
to be stable doesn't mean that system is old or outdated, means that it works always. slackware software versions are as updated as other distros, but they will only update the software is its known that will not bring problems! nobody wants a Xorg server that is full of bugs or that cant be used with nvidia or ati/amd drivers. In slackware, after one upgrade, the system will continue to work... not all distros can say the same.
check the distro timeline, its not a month or 2, only debian is close to that, the others is a lot more... and even that, slackware first releases were usable, most of the first releases of the other distros were barely usable, and they were using better software and tools.
please remember that what other distros released as their first version is totally different from what you have today... yet slackware is almost the same, the software is new (its even newer than debian in most cases) but the concept is almost the same as the original one. That is not a bug, its a feature, what worked in that time, still works today.
You can see in the timeline that most distros disappeared, but you cant see how each distro changed nor the problems they had... go read about the a.out to elf migration in each distro to learn why slackware is looked as a very stable distro.
slackware may not be a top distro, but slackware never tried to be that, never tried to grab the desktop window users, like most other distros... slackware is for those that want to learn, those that want control, those who want a stable system. If you aren't one of this, please go to other distro, after all, each distro have its own market niche.
Today, many people want a windows like distro, like ubuntu or mint, but that doesnt mean that the users that want to learn have disappeared. yes, after installing slackware, you need to configure some things... but its YOUR system, you take the decisions, you enable or disable things! not someone in ubuntu or fedora or gnome developement cycle that thinks what you should or should not use.
If the user really want to learn and don't mind reading and experimenting, slackware is a perfect distro!
unlike ubuntu, where you have almost everything configured and hidden in GUIs and several mysterious layers of "user-friendliness", slackware is simple and direct. there is no hidden config and the few user-friendly menus are just plain bash scripts, easy to read and understand. for a user that wants to learn, this is precious, as the KISS principle makes things isolated and easier to learn, step by step Even the package manager is just a script to execute tar, you only have standard unix tools, and so, you will learn the unix way: do one thing, do it well
slackware is ready to use after install, but everytime you need something, you have simple scripts, good and commented config files and a great community. missing a program? great, grab the sources and compile... you dont know how? great, you will learn (usually its just wget url/program.tar.gz; tar zvfx program.tar.gz; cd program; less README; less INSTALL;./configure --any-option-you-may-need-or-like && make ; su ; make install). in slackware there is no -dev packages, everything is there, ready to compile everything.
yes, one apt-get install program is faster, but you dont learn anything with that, and you learn a lot by installing a program by hand.
Everytime you hit a problem, stop and research, learn about it and you will understand why are you doing it instead of "copy&paste" a new ubuntu PPA repo
After learning slackware, you will do well in all other distros... learning ubuntu, you still dont know anything when using other distros
you have a working system, just like you want? fine, start thinking in new things, like web server, database, firewall, proxy, etc in each idea, you will learn more.
After playing with slackware, you can jump forward to debian or arch (or using sbopkg on slackware) to have a easier system for day to day usage, or jump to LFS (Linux from Scratch) to learn the lower level of a linux system.
After playing with slackware, you not only will understand how many things work, but also learn how to think about and solve a linux problem, how to search for logs and errors messages and read man pages and howto's
This is a difference between a desktop user (ubuntu) and advanced user or linux administrator (slackware, but also gentoo and arch).
Many the high level problems (devs are always right and should ignore users, wm fragmentation, mono and the never ending chase game, etc) we have were caused by him, it almost looked like he was playing the MS game against linux... now he will attack the MacOS... just as MS wants... He never finish anything, always leaving its project before they could work, contributing to yet another NIH solution for a existent tool/usage
get a sixxs tunnel, get a domain, host it in dns.he.net and you get free ipv6 network, including DNS (and ddns for ipv4 if needed)... After this, you can access any machine on your network that is ipv6 capable directly (or not, if you configure your router/firewall to block it) If you have hardware in your local network that dont work with ipv6, replace it or configure a local ipv4 network (example: 192.168.1.0/24), via static IP or dhcp if you can configure your router (if not, install a dhcp daemon on any machine). Any ipv4 only hardware can be accessed via any machine that have both ipv4 and ipv6 configured
if you control other ipv4 networks, request another tunnel, later one ipv6 range later and configure your router (with openwrt+aiccu+radvd) to be a full ipv6 router on that ipv4 network.
Most people don't understand that they don't really need any office at all !!
Office is used as a swiss army knife, but many times they are using the wrong tool (when all you got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail!!)
-email and wikis replaced the most of the word processing -calculator, real databases and special data tools replace most of the the spreadsheet -PDF, youtube, web presentation and screen capture replace most of the presentations (and keep the presentations simple, NO ANIMATIONS, please!!) -real databases or sqlite replace what some insist in using, even knowing that is broken, access -a real email client or webmail replaces outlook (so broken by design that today many people thinks that is the only way that email to work... until they see good webmails working)
Yes, some people do really write documents (most of then should use latex instead)... Yes, some people do really need spreadsheets (this is by far the most important tool in MS office No, "fun" powerpoints are not important, please let it die and go do something productive... like reading slashdot posts!;)
So...there are people that need MS office (most of this can use any office for that matter), but those arent really the normal people, those don't really need any office (how many times did tablet owners really used one office?)
i have a dual core A9 at 1.6Ghz on a ICS and it runs just fine, same speed or faster than "browser" or chrome... so exactly what is your problem? maybe the problem is somewhere else or trigger by something, like the internet connection speed, number of tab openned, flash, heavy javascript, etc
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easy, its sid !!
the most advanced open 3D drivers are from intel.
AMD takes the common parts (like most of the mesa code) from intel and add support for radeon GPUs. This helps a lot the driver development.
Nouveau people have to that also, but they have first to do guess work to enable the features.
So you are saying that nouveau, with years of missing work and many missing features, compared to the other two GPUs will have more and better features in a few months/years? are you on drugs? :)
the other drivers will not stop waiting for nouveau, but any advance by then will help nouveau sooner or later.
also, all drivers support the older card versions, thanks to mesa, that is not a nouveau only feature. Where the hardware is lacking, mesa fallback to software, LLVM or simply optimize it out, sacrificing image quality
i dont know if nouveau will be faster or slower than intel or radeon drivers when they reach the same feature level, but i'm sure that nouveau will be the last of the big three to have most features. that will not change unless nvidia really supports nouveau and mesa to catchup the lost years... looking to their past record and even recent events, that will probably not happen.
i give my kudos to nouveau people for their work, but i prefer to support intel and amd got their work with the community than to support some company that really don't understand linux, the free software ideals and long term support for their hardware.
So you are using open Intel drivers, that are more or less on par with AMD ones (usually lagging a few months from intel, because they share most of the mesa code, its easier to catch up than building ground up), with AMD cards being more powerful and so, faster.
I play linux games (via humble bundle, steam and desura) with AMD open drivers, so i can tell you that they work. If you check phoronix benchmarks, AMD closed and open drivers have a average performance difference of 20%, that isnt perfect, but not bad also...
You say are also using nvidia:
-if closed source drivers -> yes, they are faster, yes, they are closed source shit from a company that don't really care about linux, just their money (As Linus said: F*ck you Nvidia)
-if open source drivers -> they share the mesa part with all others, but lagging several years, to the point that aren't really usable for most people
So looks like you are a "little" bias!
When EU stops paying farms to not produce or imposing limits on productions, food production will go up!
When all this "scientists" must just to eat their own poison (ie: just ead GM food) for years several years, maybe they will change their mind.
When GM companies stop paying "studies", "scientists", politicians, etc and stop sueing everyone, then maybe there is a real analysis of the problems
When all food with GM is CLEARY marked as so, then the consumers can choose and let people vote with their wallet
Nothing to see here, move along, its just another try to pressure the EU to accept GM, when almost everyone clearly don't want then.
On my time you would get a ping of dead just for that comment!! damn kids! ;)
Just pick the huge bonus, golden parachutes, stupid merge and acquisitions just to pump the stock, etc, etc and put in on real R&D (not patent waving) and engineering solutions and things might get better!
Actually there many women bomb cases, as in some places, the control points dont have women to do the body search, but even more because their long tunics are good to hide things
ok troll, i will bite it!
what, homeland security, FBI, NSA are angels?
The countless US invasions, the protection of dictators like Noriega, Pinochet and even Saddam just because (at their opinion its the less of two evils), the support of Islamic groups like the Taliban, etc, etc. Even today, with the CIA torture jails, Halliburton corruption, wall street and banks frauds show that you have nastiness and corruption all over the top US government and companies.
Probably the US is directly and indirectly responsible of more killings and problems than most of those countries.
People all over the world have the same "Capitalism benefits" as you, even if they are communists, fascists, tribal, etc!! things like jobs (duh!) , homes (double duh!) , clothes ( triple duh!) , electronics (all made in china today... that is communist!!) , computers (even URSS had their own computers!), air travel(duh!) and yes, even internet (call it arpanet, fidonet, AMPRNet or minitel, what ever... arpanet won, but there where alternatives out there)
And yes, cuba have the BEST medical care in the world... and that limited high-tech medical machinery. In cuba everyone have full and free medical support, people around the world travel to cuba to use their medical cares for hard to solve problems (not free for non-residents of course). That doesnt mean that they can cure everything, that mean they give you the best treatment for your problem and long term support for it. No bullshit like, "Take this treatment, the other one a lot better, but is too expensive"... Everyone gets best treatment, not just the rich people.
Huge amount of money will also not give you better medical treatment, just ask Ted Kennedy.
who is full of bullshit now?
stop looking to your own belly and thinking that you are the center of the world. US have good things, but it also have many bad things, just like every place in the world!
you can also format the layout of a page with tables, its may also be much shorter than CSS!!
ROTFL
i didn't notice that it was he that wrote that comment!!
let me find a hole to jump to!! :)
you know that you can only use one HW hypervisor? the other on top of the first are using plain virtualization ... not that it matters much, running a VM inside a VM is plain stupid!
try not installing X11, X11 apps, kde, xfce , emacs, tcl and docs (ie: just unselect the install folders x, xa, kde, kdei, xfce, e, tcl and f )
there! you have a tiny distro, ready to use, compile, whatever
No Linux distro on the planet uses the stock kernel.
Slackware uses stock kernels
All of them have different locations for many different files.
Slackware puts the files where the app developers want to, they dont move files around, breaking stuff (are you listen redhat/fedora!)
All of them have major patchs to all sorts of 'standard' apps.
Slackware tried to used just the upstream code. Only when there are problem reported and there is a fix in the upstream cvs/svn/git, its is ported to the latest release (or the git version is used)
So yes, there are standard, plain and simple distros... slackware is one of the most stable distros there is by not messing all over
Linux's lack of standardization is repeatedly brought up as one of its largest problems in becoming a more common desktop since software vendors don't want to target a bunch of slightly different distro's to pick up a statistically insignificant portion of the population.
Strange, there are things like static binaries, that work EVERYWHERE... you can also ship the libraries, for a pseudo static binary.
But solving that isnt that hard, just have several VMs with the main distros and recompile... yes, its harder than having the source code open and let users/distros developers compile it for you, but that is the price for having closed source.
yes, FUD ! trying to show the worst case possible as a normal, everyday thing is FUD.
1- you CAN compile anything... but that doesn't mean that anyone must do it. Again, only people that really want to do it (developers and gentoo users) will ever do it. Most ubuntu users dont even know what compile is and they use a linux system just fine.
2- a) i'm a slackware user since 1995 and slackware DO have repositories! You have the main ftp for distro packages, you have alienbob packages, you have the slacky repository, rlworkman repository, linuxpackages.net and finally, the slackbuilds repository, where you have build scripts for many softwares (but yes, you can still compile manually if you like!)
b) if you have a package that need a different lib version that you are using, then you are doing it wrong! binary packages are build for one distro/version, should be used on that distro/version. Trying to mix distros or version packages is a great way to have a broken system. Please note that i'm not saying that it doesn't work, most of the time it works fine, but one should ALWAYS prefer distro+correct version packages, and if not available, a source compiled. The above repositories for slackware have many programs compiled for the correct slackaware versions and if not, have the slackbuild ready to quickly compile things.
Downloading a random binary from the internet and trying to use it on a random distro is the "windows way", not the "linux way".
ps: if you are talking about gnome, forget it, that is a dependency hell... on slackware you need to use a gnome repository (like GSB or dropline) to have matching libs. For other distros its the same thing... binary packages build for set of libraries. NO MIXING... if you mix versions, its a user problem, not distro nor linux problem
3- Linux have 2 "clipboards", that work in different ways... if you dont understand then, its better to install some clipboard management, like klipper, glipper, parcellite, etc and enable the clipboards sync. It will make copy&paste more useful and consistent, specially for windows users. If you are talking about feel and use consistency, try to use the same platform for all apps (kde, gnome, xfce, etc), but as linux have more GUI libraries and no central management, the GUI is more fragment than on windows and mac... but those systems also have different GUI frameworks and so, the exact same problem . For some people that is a problem, for others is a good (promotes competition)
this is FUD!
No one in current times, unless its a developer or a gentoo user, will compile X from source
Only a windows user would think that mixing libraries is a good idea to put a program to work, its the fastest way to break a system. Only advanced and knowledge users should try it and only for a very good reason (like trying to support a closed source app... if you have the source, its probably easier and safer to recompile)
Every distro have some form of beta, latest, unstable, -current, etc version, where you have even more update apps if you want. many have external repositories and ftp servers where you can get updated versions, compiled for your system... so even if someone wants a newer version of something, all it needs to know is to use google and read.
lastly there are software that needs to be fine tuned, but no OS is perfect. Windows require huge amount of extra software to be useful and is lacking in many places, MacOSX break many things, lacks others and is not as flexible, linux have incomplete features in some places. Now all depends what you need, what you use, need or not need. The good new is that linux advance faster than the other OS, so one problem for one user last year might have disappeared already today.
and you? did you read the comment?
for above sound speed, you are correct, but for above light speed (if possible), the package would time travel and so arrive in the past, before the sending
Do bullets shot faster than the speed of sound arrive before the gun makes a sound?
are you serious?!
super-sonic bullets do arrive first, then the sound...that is why they are super-sonic ... but he also proved that you would need a infinity amount of energy to just reach the light speed and that impossible in the reality to go beyond that
Higher-than-light speeds are needed to to back in time, as Einstein proved (mathematically)
let me say it slowly: T E X T F I L E S
Just in case you dont know, LQ is the oficial slackware forum. Many important slackware users and admins are there.
there is also a internal mailling list and the freenode IRC channel. All serve as a feedback for decision making.
you clearly don't know what you are talking about!
to be stable doesn't mean that system is old or outdated, means that it works always. slackware software versions are as updated as other distros, but they will only update the software is its known that will not bring problems! nobody wants a Xorg server that is full of bugs or that cant be used with nvidia or ati/amd drivers. In slackware, after one upgrade, the system will continue to work... not all distros can say the same.
check the distro timeline, its not a month or 2, only debian is close to that, the others is a lot more... and even that, slackware first releases were usable, most of the first releases of the other distros were barely usable, and they were using better software and tools.
please remember that what other distros released as their first version is totally different from what you have today... yet slackware is almost the same, the software is new (its even newer than debian in most cases) but the concept is almost the same as the original one. That is not a bug, its a feature, what worked in that time, still works today.
You can see in the timeline that most distros disappeared, but you cant see how each distro changed nor the problems they had... go read about the a.out to elf migration in each distro to learn why slackware is looked as a very stable distro.
slackware may not be a top distro, but slackware never tried to be that, never tried to grab the desktop window users, like most other distros... slackware is for those that want to learn, those that want control, those who want a stable system. If you aren't one of this, please go to other distro, after all, each distro have its own market niche.
Today, many people want a windows like distro, like ubuntu or mint, but that doesnt mean that the users that want to learn have disappeared. yes, after installing slackware, you need to configure some things... but its YOUR system, you take the decisions, you enable or disable things! not someone in ubuntu or fedora or gnome developement cycle that thinks what you should or should not use.
If the user really want to learn and don't mind reading and experimenting, slackware is a perfect distro!
unlike ubuntu, where you have almost everything configured and hidden in GUIs and several mysterious layers of "user-friendliness", slackware is simple and direct.
there is no hidden config and the few user-friendly menus are just plain bash scripts, easy to read and understand. for a user that wants to learn, this is precious, as the KISS principle makes things isolated and easier to learn, step by step
Even the package manager is just a script to execute tar, you only have standard unix tools, and so, you will learn the unix way: do one thing, do it well
slackware is ready to use after install, but everytime you need something, you have simple scripts, good and commented config files and a great community. ./configure --any-option-you-may-need-or-like && make ; su ; make install).
missing a program? great, grab the sources and compile... you dont know how? great, you will learn (usually its just wget url/program.tar.gz; tar zvfx program.tar.gz; cd program; less README; less INSTALL;
in slackware there is no -dev packages, everything is there, ready to compile everything.
yes, one apt-get install program is faster, but you dont learn anything with that, and you learn a lot by installing a program by hand.
Everytime you hit a problem, stop and research, learn about it and you will understand why are you doing it instead of "copy&paste" a new ubuntu PPA repo
After learning slackware, you will do well in all other distros... learning ubuntu, you still dont know anything when using other distros
you have a working system, just like you want? fine, start thinking in new things, like web server, database, firewall, proxy, etc
in each idea, you will learn more.
After playing with slackware, you can jump forward to debian or arch (or using sbopkg on slackware) to have a easier system for day to day usage, or jump to LFS (Linux from Scratch) to learn the lower level of a linux system.
Documentation, you have the slackware book: http://slackbook.org/ and the foca linux (Portuguese, but is very complete and you can use the translator): http://www.guiafoca.org/
After playing with slackware, you not only will understand how many things work, but also learn how to think about and solve a linux problem, how to search for logs and errors messages and read man pages and howto's
This is a difference between a desktop user (ubuntu) and advanced user or linux administrator (slackware, but also gentoo and arch).
but hey, take the test: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Many the high level problems (devs are always right and should ignore users, wm fragmentation, mono and the never ending chase game, etc) we have were caused by him, it almost looked like he was playing the MS game against linux... now he will attack the MacOS... just as MS wants...
He never finish anything, always leaving its project before they could work, contributing to yet another NIH solution for a existent tool/usage
+ 1 for sixxs
get a sixxs tunnel, get a domain, host it in dns.he.net and you get free ipv6 network, including DNS (and ddns for ipv4 if needed)...
After this, you can access any machine on your network that is ipv6 capable directly (or not, if you configure your router/firewall to block it)
If you have hardware in your local network that dont work with ipv6, replace it or configure a local ipv4 network (example: 192.168.1.0/24), via static IP or dhcp if you can configure your router (if not, install a dhcp daemon on any machine). Any ipv4 only hardware can be accessed via any machine that have both ipv4 and ipv6 configured
if you control other ipv4 networks, request another tunnel, later one ipv6 range later and configure your router (with openwrt+aiccu+radvd) to be a full ipv6 router on that ipv4 network.
Most people don't understand that they don't really need any office at all !!
Office is used as a swiss army knife, but many times they are using the wrong tool (when all you got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail!!)
-email and wikis replaced the most of the word processing
-calculator, real databases and special data tools replace most of the the spreadsheet
-PDF, youtube, web presentation and screen capture replace most of the presentations (and keep the presentations simple, NO ANIMATIONS, please!!)
-real databases or sqlite replace what some insist in using, even knowing that is broken, access
-a real email client or webmail replaces outlook (so broken by design that today many people thinks that is the only way that email to work... until they see good webmails working)
Yes, some people do really write documents (most of then should use latex instead)... ... like reading slashdot posts! ;)
Yes, some people do really need spreadsheets (this is by far the most important tool in MS office
No, "fun" powerpoints are not important, please let it die and go do something productive
So...there are people that need MS office (most of this can use any office for that matter), but those arent really the normal people, those don't really need any office (how many times did tablet owners really used one office?)
i have a dual core A9 at 1.6Ghz on a ICS and it runs just fine, same speed or faster than "browser" or chrome... so exactly what is your problem? maybe the problem is somewhere else or trigger by something, like the internet connection speed, number of tab openned, flash, heavy javascript, etc