I've been using linux on and off for about the past 6 years. From the second i started even when i didn't know anything about linux i knew i wanted control of my system. I kept messing with slackware and never succeeded at making everything work how i wanted. Before i left to college 2 months ago i bought myself a lenovo t500 laptop and said to myself i'm only going to run linux on this thing with any other os in a virtual pc. My friend originally suggested Sabayon to me which i used for a while but i had minor problems, and i still felt i didn't have full control and attempted slackware several times. My main problem was internet on campus, on Sabayon i was able to connect but it always gave me problems on slackware i could not get the nm-applet to start. After a little research i learned all i had to do was run Network manager on startup as root. As long as i do that my internet always connects, never any more problems. Now no glitches no problems. Somehow i always knew i would end up running slackware. Never do i use another distribution again. Except a newer Slack


So thank you to all who support this awesome distribution.

Slackware is the classic, no doubt about it. I ran my first Slackware in 1995, and at the time, I was running mostly UNIX workstations with a BSD flavored implementation of UNIX with a few GNU packages occasionally added. I used to use ksh as my shell on UNIX workstations until I came across a defect that bothered me, so I started using Bash instead. So when I got into Slackware it felt right at home.

These days, Slackware isn't all I use, but I still come back to visit it. At the moment, I am using a light, slam it in Slackware alternative, Absolute Linux, which provides a very light, fast system, plus it's fast and easy to install. But it has Slackware to credit, and in essence it is a custom implementation of Slackware packaging.

You could also use wicd which is in the extra section on your Slackware CDs / DVD, or any Slackware mirror. Wicd is very easy to install and use.

And welcome to the LQ forums!

Greetings xalted13! Welcome to the official Slackware forums. It is good to meet you. As tommcd stated I also have had excellent success using wicd in /extra. Wicd works very well indeed.
I started using Linux in 2002 with Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, then moved to Red Hat 9. In 2004 I first used Slackware (version 10.0), I found it to be quite challenging at the time. I've used a variety of distros (Linux/Unix), but, nothing comes close to my favourite.
Slackware for me, man...all the way!

Amen! Thank you Slackware and all those who make Slackware my GNU/Linux distro of choice! There is beauty in the purity of Slackware and Fluxbox.

I recently found a post on LQ about wicd as well. I installed it from the "extra" directory on the install DVD, and viola! Now my Asus N10J-A1 works great over wireless. Once you install wicd, just make sure that rc.wicd and rc.wireless have their execute bit enabled (they should already). Then just run "wicd-client", and you should see your wireless access points to connect to.

Cheers!
~~Fish~~

Thank you Patrick Volkerding, thank you Slackware crew, thank you Linuxquestions.org, and most importantly, thank you to all of the unnamed and anonymous people who do their part to make Slackware a reality.

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As an extra added benefit, wicd is not dependant on either gnome or kde. Makes it an essential application in my books.

Edit: although to the credit of the Arch forums, they were the ones that made me aware of this application.