Gary,

Get well soon! Being on crutches is a real annoyance.

Was she in a car, or did she use her fist?
Get well soon, Gary.

Hi,

Only you would come up with that one brianL. She was drivinng a '97 Buick'. The next day it felt like I was hit by a Mack truck instead of a Buick.

Ouch! Get well soon, onebuck!

Honestly, I find Slackware has become the opposite of the nuts and bolts hype. Its so easy. I tried several other distros over the years, but every version you have to learn the new gotchas, and why doesn't this work. Once you really get comfortable with Slack, it's just so easy to setup. I have a couple text files I keep that I pasted in my configs and preferences for most things years ago. Copy from my usb archive all my files and games, walk away and its ready to go.

Simple, stable and I use it for pretty much everything except my job. Which I have to use their Macintosh for. I'm just way to lazy to use anything else.

Gary, I don't know you, but I feel for you. I was rear ended earlier this year. Luckily I just got a bad case of the whiplash, but that alone hurts like hell. I hope you get well soon.

My mother does, however. I always disliked accounting. I do have to perform banking transactions at work. I do hate it.

In the other hand, there was a missing point: scientific apps (besides GIS). I have an instance of Quantum GIS, which I use in a professional way, at work.

I also use a lot of Bricscad, which has come to be an acceptable choice to Autocad, specially for Linux users. I also experiment/use a lot with virtual machines.

When using a box for my own purposes, I mostly use it as a media center and play games. (Warcraft and all strategy games) I also like to impress my girlfriend/fiancee. She prefers using my laptop because it gets no viruses, so I made a session for her, with specially crafted launchers for favorite apps, proper bookmarks to the pages she likes (mostly Facebook and Youtube), and of course desktop themes and Firefox personas and so on. She also likes to play GTA and Half Life (through Wine).

So her netbook went to her aunt to play Solitaire until I install Slackware on it.

Are you kidding? A 97 Buick takes down a Mack any day! Get well soon, being banged up is no fun.

Get well soon, onebuck.

[offtopic rant]

There are so many of these cases of "elderly drivers hitting the accel instead of the brake" and killing or injuring lots of people in the process ... smashing into cars, stores, etc. I don't feel safe, and I think something should be done about it, extensive re-examination of the elderly for ability to drive. (No offense to any elderly here, but I think it must be done for the good of all).

Anyway, get well soon, onebuck. You may have been lucky.

What's her handle on Linux Questions? Should we come after her? Or did *you* have it coming by stomping on her in a forum?

Who should we lynch? The 86 year old Linux Questions user/buick motorist or onebuck?

There is no life outside Linux Questions. It's all related.

I still can't believe she hit your truck! That's cold man. You don't mess with a man's truck.

I think this is my first post here; I, however, have frequented these forums when I tried getting things working in my Slackware setup. I do everything on my slackbox. I had it on both this desktop, and my laptop (until I started messing with Gentoo [an adventure on its own]). I want to get into editing audio and video. I've gotten used to setting up and utilizing mythtv. I haven't done any real edits recently, but will start doing that when I gather enough TV episodes to make a decent compilation.

As far as gaming, I have WINE. But, I've been able to live with the Linux offerings as of late. For me, the next gen stuff is nice, but graphics (on which many latter day games are based), but I'm not sure if I'd get any more fun factor than what's being offered now.

Welcome to Linux Questions :-D I've been coming here for a long time and I've gotten a lot of help here.

That's the way to do it. Use your Linux system and you can't help but get better at making things work the way you want.

I use Kino for Video editing on Slackware. You can find everything to build Kino and its myriad of dependencies at http://slackbuilds.org.

I've never done Myth on Slackware or otherwise.

MythTV is really nice. If I add more tuners, I'll have a full-fledged DVR setup . I installed cinelerra; kdenlive,and ardour/audacity for my editors.

you left out an option:
[ ] To look leet

:P

well, i use slackware because it just doesn't change too much, i think that it stays close to original, at least for what i use. i'm not a computer person, per se, but i do my own programming, virtually all in command line tools. if i need a graphic, i use some package, like gnuplot or grap (it's an oldie but a goodie). i mostly use plain TeX for word processing, and i've written shell scripts with dialog to manage my todo lists and calendar, etc... and i do a lot of scientific programming for work, all in C/C++.

even though i do have fairly new computers, i still like to keep things slim, i use fvwm2 when i want graphics (yes, i still do quite a bit of work in plain text mode, mutt for e-mail, for example).

i like that slackware will send me discs automatically when they have an update. i find i don't need a lot of other applications, so slack seems sufficient. or, the app's i do need are easy enough to compile, install, and keep running.

be gentle, use all lower case letters...