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Greg Bear is not really that great. I read his book Eon and admit that it was interesting up to the ending. But I did not bother reading the last 90 or 50 pages because it was such a disappointment. It changes from sf to some witchcraft book.
I bought a Slackware cd several months ago because I was sick of rpm dependency hell and I tryed it after killing my system while trying to upgrade glibc. The installation was not so hard. Just specify the usual locale, etc. You do have to make your own partitions with a program such as fdisk but this is calmly explained in their excellent manual. If it is your first Slackware definitely buy their manual or if you are cheap read it on their website. The rest of the installation is like Redhat and I would guess most other distros. After installation I could use my sound card by uncommenting one line in one of the init scripts. Warning: old BSD style init scripts are used but now I actually prefer it. Enabling or disabling things such as ssh and sendmail only require greping around/etc/rc.d and [un]commenting a couple of lines. Printer support is easily accomplished with lpr and apsfilter. Apsfilter has a good/huge shell installation script that is kind of hidden in/usr/lib/apsfilter which I don't think is mentioned in the Slackware manual. X setup was simple with xf86config (the non-graphical one). Slackware has most of the software I use every day such as KDE, GNOME, xmms, ogg/vorbis, mutt, and four bowsers. It also lacks a lot of software that I don't use.
As many have pointed out, the success of Slackware will not depend on one or two programs that have not even been finished yet.
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Greg Bear is not really that great. I read his book Eon and admit that it was interesting up to the ending. But I did not bother reading the last 90 or 50 pages because it was such a disappointment. It changes from sf to some witchcraft book.
Just change the program to be able to save and load a partial solution onto disk. Problem solved.
I bought a Slackware cd several months ago because I was sick of rpm dependency hell and I tryed it after killing my system while trying to upgrade glibc. The installation was not so hard. Just specify the usual locale, etc. You do have to make your own partitions with a program such as fdisk but this is calmly explained in their excellent manual. If it is your first Slackware definitely buy their manual or if you are cheap read it on their website. The rest of the installation is like Redhat and I would guess most other distros. After installation I could use my sound card by uncommenting one line in one of the init scripts. Warning: old BSD style init scripts are used but now I actually prefer it. Enabling or disabling things such as ssh and sendmail only require greping around /etc/rc.d and [un]commenting a couple of lines. Printer support is easily accomplished with lpr and apsfilter. Apsfilter has a good/huge shell installation script that is kind of hidden in /usr/lib/apsfilter which I don't think is mentioned in the Slackware manual. X setup was simple with xf86config (the non-graphical one). Slackware has most of the software I use every day such as KDE, GNOME, xmms, ogg/vorbis, mutt, and four bowsers. It also lacks a lot of software that I don't use.
As many have pointed out, the success of Slackware will not depend on one or two programs that have not even been finished yet.