WINDOWS is for people who want a computer to just.. work, with as little effort as possible. LINUX is for people who want a computer to work the way they want. you want point-and-click, go back to windows...
I never said slack doesn't have a package manager, i know it does. I just never use it. I prefer to compile everything from source though, gives me a lil more control over what is installed and the options to change whats installed, AND the options to configure the program more to my needs.
Slackware is for people who want to learn. In fact, slack almost forces you to learn linux the way its supposed to be used.
A) know where all the configuration files are
B) know the syntax of the configuration files
C) knowing command line seems to impress the less computer savy;-)
And i think screen shots of a linux distro are kinda pointless anyway because; one of my favorite things about linux; you can have it look anyway you want because of the numerous window managers.
Certainly dindt like my LCD monitor very much then... ive had to screw with XF86Config every time i installed linux using this monitor, kinda sucks that some of the resolutions dont work(well its a 1280x1024 but it wont even go 800x600 in lilo... goes blank aside from a banner flashing "MODE NOT SUPPORTED")
Well then i will have to avoid all.tgz's then because i cant stand packages. Perhaps it was a really bad experience i had with them using mand, but i loathe them.
I had that problem for a while, happened to me when i was scrtewing around with the screen resolution in lilo.conf. It would boot just fine, but once i started X, if i ctl+alt+Fx then the screen looked all screwy(angry fruit salad!), i just set vga = normal and all worked out great for me.
I've tried plenty of linux distros(slack, RH, gentoo, deb, mand, suse) and freebsd, out of all of them slackware is by far my favorite. Some peopel complain about a package manager, but ive never been a fan of those anyway, i prefer to do it all by source. i honestly havent noticed too much of a difference between 9.1 and 10 aside from updated software(most of which i had already updated) I, personaly, see slack as a straight-to-the-point distro; which is exactly what i want. Plenty of oportunity to update anything you want. kernel 2.6.8-rc1 works great with slack 10 =) [/rant]
Never did either of those but in my linux newbie days, i happened to see a folder named ~ in my home folder. i didnt know what it was and it was empty. I cant stand useless crap sitting around my home folder... so i went to delete it.
rm -rf ~
Opps...
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WINDOWS is for people who want a computer to just.. work, with as little effort as possible. LINUX is for people who want a computer to work the way they want. you want point-and-click, go back to windows...
I never said slack doesn't have a package manager, i know it does. I just never use it. I prefer to compile everything from source though, gives me a lil more control over what is installed and the options to change whats installed, AND the options to configure the program more to my needs.
so THATS thats guys name huh? i was wondering that...
Slackware is for people who want to learn. In fact, slack almost forces you to learn linux the way its supposed to be used. A) know where all the configuration files are B) know the syntax of the configuration files C) knowing command line seems to impress the less computer savy ;-)
And i think screen shots of a linux distro are kinda pointless anyway because; one of my favorite things about linux; you can have it look anyway you want because of the numerous window managers.
well if you want a kick ass system then sometimes you need to kick its ass first =P
Certainly dindt like my LCD monitor very much then... ive had to screw with XF86Config every time i installed linux using this monitor, kinda sucks that some of the resolutions dont work(well its a 1280x1024 but it wont even go 800x600 in lilo... goes blank aside from a banner flashing "MODE NOT SUPPORTED")
wow, those are some loooooooooooooooong arms. hippy stench aka. pot smoke =D
Well then i will have to avoid all .tgz's then because i cant stand packages. Perhaps it was a really bad experience i had with them using mand, but i loathe them.
I had that problem for a while, happened to me when i was scrtewing around with the screen resolution in lilo.conf. It would boot just fine, but once i started X, if i ctl+alt+Fx then the screen looked all screwy(angry fruit salad!), i just set vga = normal and all worked out great for me.
>>OT: I absolutely hate people who seem to think .tgz is just a substitution for .tar.gz, it's not!
*feels hated* ok, whats the difference then?
I've tried plenty of linux distros(slack, RH, gentoo, deb, mand, suse) and freebsd, out of all of them slackware is by far my favorite. Some peopel complain about a package manager, but ive never been a fan of those anyway, i prefer to do it all by source. i honestly havent noticed too much of a difference between 9.1 and 10 aside from updated software(most of which i had already updated) I, personaly, see slack as a straight-to-the-point distro; which is exactly what i want. Plenty of oportunity to update anything you want. kernel 2.6.8-rc1 works great with slack 10 =) [/rant]
Never did either of those but in my linux newbie days, i happened to see a folder named ~ in my home folder. i didnt know what it was and it was empty. I cant stand useless crap sitting around my home folder... so i went to delete it. rm -rf ~ Opps...