As most of us know, RH has abandoned thier desktop project. As I just learned recently. I am new(6mo) to linux, and love it. Since I run a computer company and am learning programming, I switched from MS 2000 & 2003 to RH(. I also run Smoothie!.) So, here is my question. I need a new distro of Linux that is easy enough for a intermediate linux user who has only used RH, Suse, and ARK. I herad Slackware is pretty good. Any comments?? :newbie:

Hi Soll,

and welcome to LQ ...

Slack rocks :} ... nuff said!


Cheers,
Tink

here here. bailed out of fedora and joined the slackers.

come aboard

Slackware will indeed roxor your soxorz and you will never want another distro.

I would certainly recommend Slackware to you. However unless you are averse to trying different distros, I would suggest trying Slack, SuSe, Gentoo, FreeBSD ..... take your pick of a couple. That way you know what is out there and why you like the one you settle on and why you don't like some of the others. I have tried most main distros over the years and settled on Slack since 8.1 as my only one. Although I am getting that itch again ..... a new FreeBSD release you know

Yep. That about sums it up.

Yes you heard right.

That being said slackware comes out of an install clean with a minimum of services running. That means it is fast and stablebut it also means you'll have to put in some time to configure it to suit.

Configuration, including getting an X session and desktop at boot, is almost all done afterwards by editing config files, changing permissions, and commenting/uncommenting scripts. That means its all very transparent and not hidden behind wizards and gui configuration aps.

It's all very basic stuff that had been discussed here and if you can't find it post for help (tell us the problem don't just say something isn't working).

If you want to read some manpages and howto's as well as get your hands dirty in an editor you will learn a heck of allot about linux and operating systems, networking, etc. in general.

Unlike RH desktops like kde and gnome are not modofied anymore than is necessary to be sure it works.

If you've got some experience with programming basics all the better and when your slack is up and running you'll have a very stable platform for programming.


Cheers

Rick

IMHO:
Slackware rules.
Power, flexibilty and speed are unmatched by any of the other distros
I've tried (quite a few)

Good luck and post if you need help.

I like Slack because it works well on my 200mhz computer. I also like how apache, the ftp server, and all of that is all set up if you install it. Best of all: if you do just about everything out of a console, you don't even have to use X, which really is nice if you're on a low-end machine and want to do something like SETI.....

Slack rocks. It can be a pain to set up the first, the second, maybe the third time, but once you've put it on a few machines, you can do it with your eyes closed.

It never hurts to try new things. I just switched my system over to Gentoo to see if I like it better, but I can assure you, if this Gentoo install ever craps out on me, I'm headed right back to Slackware. But as was said, there are other distros out there, and everyone has their own tastes. That's one of the things I think makes GNU/Linux so great, if you don't like one distro, there's bound to be another out there that's more your flavor.

thanks for all the responses...I'm downloadin all 3 iso'z now..take me 1 hr...
Thx again!