No, slackware is for people who want to find stuff out. Slackware is Linux without somone encapsulateing it, like RedHat. When my computer fucks up, I want it to be MY fault. Not like in windoze where it is some wered assed kernel bug. that's why I run linux. That's also why I program in str8 C without any stupid IDE's. I installed RedHat, once, and got some wiered assed errors when I installed add on programs. (I was like 16 at the time, and didnt know half what I do now) Anyways later that evening, I formatted and went back to slackware.
I started with slackware, 'bout 3 years ago, when I got my first 386- a 25 mhz box with 12 megs of ram, and a 30 meg RLL hard drive. I still run slack, (the name even seems natural to me... 18 yr old guy still liveing at home... flunking outta jr. collage cause I'd rather hack my new CGI functions than write my english paper-can not or will not spell english properly)
If you cant compile a package from the source, you should figure out how. It's really not that hard, I figured it out back when i was a freakin basic programmer.
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No, slackware is for people who want to find stuff out. Slackware is Linux without somone encapsulateing it, like RedHat. When my computer fucks up, I want it to be MY fault. Not like in windoze where it is some wered assed kernel bug. that's why I run linux. That's also why I program in str8 C without any stupid IDE's. I installed RedHat, once, and got some wiered assed errors when I installed add on programs. (I was like 16 at the time, and didnt know half what I do now) Anyways later that evening, I formatted and went back to slackware.
I started with slackware, 'bout 3 years ago, when I got my first 386- a 25 mhz box with 12 megs of ram, and a 30 meg RLL hard drive. I still run slack, (the name even seems natural to me... 18 yr old guy still liveing at home... flunking outta jr. collage cause I'd rather hack my new CGI functions than write my english paper-can not or will not spell english properly)
If you cant compile a package from the source, you should figure out how. It's really not that hard, I figured it out back when i was a freakin basic programmer.