It all started - I was fed up with Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, and all of the other RPM-based distros - I knew Linux could perform better. But, I was never prepared for what I'd see from Slackware - WOW! What a difference! Very impressed, and very much a learning experience. I was running kernel 2.4.26 - which was fine about a week ago, and with xfce. I longed for my long lost love, E. So, I downloaded and compiled it! My first *major* compilation. I was elated, and with very little configuration (a ~/.xinitrc), had it working. Then curiousity got better of me, so i downloaded the 2.6.9 source from kernel.org, and went to compile my first kernel. AGGGHHH - no disply @ CLI. OK, LQ helped me with that one, but no sound? OK, tried several more recompiles ( I say more because I had to recompile to fix the display thing ) and still no alsa. So - I downloaded the ALSA source and, after much reading, found out I needed 3 files (alsa-lib, alsa-driver, and alsa-utils), so i downloaded and compiled! Sound problem cured!
All in all, I love slackware. It is more of a learning curve, but I now see it easier than Mandrake. Why? Everything installs so easily. There are no deps with compiled programs etc.
There are just 2 more problems I'm having:
1) I can't display man pages, I get this:
Code:
scuzzy@slackdell:~$ man bash
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/gunzip -c '/usr/man/man1/bash.1.gz'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl
| /usr/bin/nroff -S -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -is) exited with status 256.
No manual entry for bash
scuzzy@slackdell:~$
After it starts to display it (?). But - thats OK: xman works fine, and info works fine.
2) Who is the guy with the pipe and what importance does he hold with Slack?
One more thing, I'd like to thank LQ and ALL its members. I couldn't have done this without you all, and will never turn back. Thanks everyone.
