Hello everyone, today i've installed Slackware, very excited, but have such problem, that feeling kind of lost..
Maybe you could give me some advices where and how to start..
Because feelin' really stupid..

--Thanks

I know how you feel. I have over the past 10 years done some attempts to start using / learning Linux, and I've always given up after some days.

However, every time I tried, I did learn a lot of new things and that knowledge didn't go lost it seems. Right now I'm starting to feel comfortable in the same sense I became comfortable with MS DOS 3.1 in the very beginning of my PC-days. So this time I'm not giving up

As for your question: You've installed it successfully, so I'd say you already started. Just play around with it, read up some and ask away when you encounter a problem.

Thanks for support.
I'm kind of lost about everything, new environment, so very hard to get used to it, you know what i mean.
Also the terminal itself is kind of tough task to do..
I would appreciate if somebody could post here some links on sites that supplies such help for totally beginners on Slackware.
Mostly on configurations of the system itself, files and that 'crap'..

Slackbook is one thing you could be interested in.. Its version 2 is a bit dated by now though. - http://www.slackbook.org/
Then there's that topic as sticky - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...o-next-644746/

Also, this forum is a great place of information.

Slackware is great but requires a lot of knowledge which might be better gained by starting with an easier distro ...

First login as root and run the command Once you have added a user logout and login as that user. To logout type Once logged in as the new user type You should now be in a familiar graphical environment.

Hope this helps

samac

Hi,

I totally disagree! New user can learn to use Slackware. Sure Slackware is not a hold your hand distribution but there are plenty of reference material and help here at LQ. If someone wishes to put the effort and spend some time to learn then Slackware is a excellent Gnu/Linux to use.

Two good references Slackware® Essentials & Slackware® Basics.

Slackware-FAQ <- 'LQ Wiki'
SlackWiki Project <-- unofficial Slackware wiki; primarily maintained by regulars on ##slackware/freenode irc channel.

Plus be sure to look at: Alien Pastures

Another useful resource would be 'Slackware-Links'. More than just Slackware® links!

3 members found this post helpful.

Hi,

I forgot; Tutorials:
Slackware tutorial index + Slackware Intro+ Slackware Configuration <- Great Newbie tutorial + This tutorial is not complete at this time.' + New tutorials for installing and configuring Slack <- Original Thread

The thread plus the web site should help you to move forward.

1 members found this post helpful.

Thank you all,
for such amount of information, i'll read it as soon as i re-formate my PC once again with other options..
--Thanks one more time..
--Cheers!

+1, I couldn't agree more

1 members found this post helpful.

The best way (that I've found) to learn linux is to just use it. Install a distro (preferably Slackware) and KEEP it. You may think that you can't use it, but that's how you figure stuff out.You will have issues, and google is your friend. As well as LQ. When I started using Slack years ago, it was because everyone said that it was such a hard distro to use. Now I wouldn't use anything else.

Plus: just keep a dual boot in your main machine, so you can go to your other OS in any time. And in this way you know that if you will need a comfortable zone, you can always go to your other OS. And in some time, maybe and just maybe you will keep a virtual machine of you other OS, if you really, really need it.

What everyone said. You will get more comfortable with time. Slackware is great, not really that hard to use. It is sort of jumping in the deep end a little, you may flail around a little while, but eventually you will learn to swim (or learn how to use a Linux system in this case). Just check out the Slackbook has others have said, and feel free to ask questions here, we don't bite .

I know nothing, and it's old, but I've found this useful: http://duganchen.ca/writings/slackware/setup/

Good luck, I'm nearly in the same place you are. An adage I read about Slackware, and a good reason to stick with it, is that "using distribution X will teach you how distribution X works, but using Slackware will teach you how Linux works."

-quornicus

-1. I couldn't disagree more.

I've said this before on this forum. Slackware is beautiful work, but it requires more knowledge and provides less hand-holding than other distributions, such as Mint or Ubuntu. Installing Slackware with little or no knowledge of Linux is like trying to learn to play golf by playing Augusta National (assuming you aren't a woman). I'd make the same comment about Arch, by the way. Not for beginners. Nor are the BSDs.

/Don Allen