I couldn't agree more.

But, now here's my weird dilemma... Having used Slackware religiously for over 2 1/2 years (on both laptop and home PC), I now find all other Linux distros DIFFICULT to use. Red Hat/Fedora and Ubuntu force a GUI on you in order to configure everything, and their configuration file/directory layout doesn't always match Slackware's. Don't get me wrong, I love using KDE in Slackware, but configuring PCs/laptops/servers in a terminal is so straightforward and consistent with Slackware.

I'm sitting here at work on a Saturday afternoon trying to figure out why this RHEL4 server won't allow me to install new packages (I do realize that's a question for the RH thread), but if this were a Slackware box, I'd had this fixed yesterday.

Any suggestions? Or, is this really a problem? ;-)

There is no substitute to the real and only Slackware!
Why accept some downdrops instead of using the original?
I have tried Slax, Vector and other slack based distros, but none is like the clean, simple and good old slackware.
The best slackware based distro is www.slackware.com

Dan

Haha, I've had the same problem while running FC. It's really a very interesting story ... I must say it ...

So, yeah, my first distro was FC4, and after a while of using it, it really pissed me off that it wouldn't let me install things without installing the dependencies first, even tho I sometimes had these installed. And at other times, the package was messed up and it could never be installed because of circular dependencies, where one package "a" needed another package "b", but also vice versa, and thus neither could be installed ... how stupid.

So, not finding a reasonable solution (I'm wondering now if there was a way to force the package manager to install it '--force' ?, who knows) I wrote myself a script that would extract and install rpms without checking dependencies. Then I modified it to act somewhat like a package manager ... and then I switched to Slackware and realized that I had wasted my time, oh well.

Was your problem related to dependencies ? If not, well, at least I share interesting story. (my package manager was actually getting close to pkg tools, in theory at least ... although much crappier in implementation )

Try GoblinX Mini 2.5...

Go for Slackware!

I'm a complete Linux noob and after trying out a bunch of distros I chose Slackware to use as my one-and-only. I didn't even go for the dual-boot. I reformatted and loaded Slackware only. It's been frustrating, infuriating, and frazzled my nerves to the point that I have at times wanted to commit heinous acts on my fellow man, but looking back I wouldn't change a thing. It forced me to learn what I needed to learn, and in the end that has been an extremely positive thing.

Dig