No, slack is different, everything in slack must be done in the konsole, well not everything but alot of stuff so you must be familier with the konsole to install it.

SuSE isn't free but is a user friendly package like Mandrake. It coems packed with applications if you buy it. Sadly the download version is ridiculous and isn't even worth trying (its a DEMO)

Only in that they are both linux....

Good way to put it Aussie.

firstly 'konsole' is a terminal emulator for the KDE window manager. You presumably mean a console.

and, as far as most people are concerned, slackware just doesn't use rpms, and all programs are installed from source packages. It's lower level, and doesn't generally come with additional front end's for various cnofig tools. but you certainly don't have to do it all with a console, you can easily add whatever you want to it. you CAN put rpm on it, it just defaets the purpose of it

You want to be anal retentive over konsole vs console? then hows this

All program are NOT installed from source, there is a package system called .tgz, doesnt support dependancy checking, but they are most definately binary files. secondly, im pretty sure slackware defaults to installing rpm, and it can be damn useful, especially for closed source stuff that *only* comes in rpm. alien is ok but it only works to an extent.

Dunno I never try Suse

i tried downloading like 6 different versions of linux and on all of them i got errors when i was installing the packages. do u think that this is because i downloaded them or the cds im using or... what? im stumped

If you had the same problems then that would point to either bad cd's (if they all came from the same box/brand) or a bad drive. I'd be looking at the cd's first, try another brand and see if you get the same problem.

Since all the slack users are in here, got a question about installs. Iv'e been using RH for about 4 yrs, the installs seem to be getting bigger and bigger with each new version, tried mandrake also but always went back to RH because i know pretty much where everything is. But the question on slack is, how big are the installs? I read on the slack website that programs come in package groups. Does slack install alot of stuff that ppl never use on a basic install, like redhat and mandrake. ie sendmail, nfs, portmap, rpc services? I always have to go back and stop these services cause i dont use them. Also, slack uses more of a UNIX system configuration file nameing doesnt it? like inetd instead of xinetd. I have solaris experience on sun servers. I use the command line more then i do x programs for configuration.

How hard would it be to make to switch from RH to Slack?

Slack is the most unix like of any linux distro, it's also very BSDish, if you know solaris you'll love slack. You can set the installer so you can pick any package apart from the required system ones and there is no adding users or x-config during the install, you do that after the boot if you have to.

Cool I might give slack a crack.

Just got done reading through the whole Linux From Scratch instructions, OMG thats alot of time and typing to get one of them up, might try that someday. I'll try slack first.

Thanks for info,

You will like slack! It's powerful,it's hard,it's safe,it's free (SuSe isn't free that SUCKS! hey open source?!?!) and it's easy (well not harder than others linux distrib) if you know command line

it's the best