Woot, I just installed slackware 9.0 on a partition to make sure it will work with my wireless card. (with redhat i had to do some much crap tomakeit work). Slackware got everythign working like a breeze, including my wlan and the install was nice!

Tomorrow I will be switching over all the documents from redhat to slackware and deleting redhat partition!

Just a thank you to slackware heh

It's a very good way to dive into linx, IMO, provided someone has the time to devote to it Every day I learn something new I don't think I would have learned in other distros (such as RH)

I second that. Slackware IMHO has become the greatest distro and learning tool for me to use so far. I've used Redhat-8, Mandrake-8.2 and SuSe 6.3.
Ive learned that One CD is all ya need. Its been interesting so far, because slackware is so muh more DIY, its been more fun. Never thought I'd have fun learning so much of something that has to do with computers.
Alright, Im babbling, time to move on....

cheers,

I bought slack cause when I initally got Redhat they wouldn't give me support after I installed nvidia drivers. Even though I paid for their crappy phone/online help desk service they said that they couldn't help me if I installed something that was not on the distro disks. Then I baught mandrake and I couldn't get it to go into graphical mode at all. So then I baught Slack and it worked perfectly off of a fresh install, I installed the nvidia drivers to play games had some issues but the slack teck support mailed me precisely what I needed to do and I never had problems. Now I'm working on getting Slack on to my laptop, its there and working fine just has a few kinks like not mounting the swap and no sound but they are almost all gone.

I'm returning to Slackware after several months of using Gentoo. Although Gentoo is an excellent distro, I didn't really see any big difference in speed and/or customizability compared with that of Slackware enough to warrant me putting-up with the endless hours of compiling time needed to get from Stage 1 install to a fully loaded and functional system with X and Fluxbox (nevermind KDE...that one alone can take up to 7 hours to compile!).

Don't get me wrong. This is not a dis against Gentoo. I just don't see the practicality in it when Slackware is just as fast and as easy to customize. You actually have more control of your Slackware installation in that you are often forced to compile apps the long way (./configure;make;make install routine) and not so reliant on Gentoo's [emerge mypackage4me].

Having learned much from Gentoo, here's how I made my Slack experience even better:

1.) Install just the base system, libs, devel and X. No apps. No Extras.

2.) Download the latest Kernel + the Con Kolivas kernel patch (which is used extensively in the Gentoo kernel).

3) Compile everything out of the kernel that I don't need.

4.) Compile all the apps that I need from source (Mozilla, Gaim, gftp, xmms, Fluxbox, etc..).

although i have spent countless hours during the past 6 weeks struggling with getting slackware to do what i want, i find that i have learned more that i ever would have if things were more GUI-ed out. i spent ~$200 on the mandrake prosuite 9.0, only to have it be buggy as hell and not work very well. all i can say is that i wasted my money and that getting slack was a really good idea.

linux is one of the more entertaining "problems" i've worked on recently and i'm sure it'll continue to provide all sorts of fun for a long time to come. after about 6 weeks i now have video, sound, cd burning and (provided i can log the time) a wireless LAN in a few days.

with the help of the good people on this forum anything is possible (except becoming an astronaut, rock star or fireman).