Okay, I'm not exactly a beginner anymore..but I still have ALOT to learn. I enjoy linux though..and I love it when I actually figure things out that I didn't understand before. I do enjoy learning how things work on linux.

I've used XandrOS (which was great..but just too easy. I wanted to learn some things about linux).

I switched to fedora core 2..and I do really love it.

..but

I've always wanted to try slackware. I've heard great things about it.

I also want to try SuSE..just because lol.

Now I ask you..which is better...and why.

This will reflect on my decision for which linux os I try next. I'm trying to find one to stick with. I've been on fedora for about 3 months now..and feel like trying something different..and maybe even better.

Here is a great place to read and see pictures of Mandrake, SuSE and Fedora:

http://www.flexbeta.net/main/article...ge=1&pagenum=1

Slackware simply don't go together with those because 1) it's optimized for i486 (at least 9.1 was) and it has very few (nearly none) configuration tools (on the top of my head, mouse and netconfig... that's it), while SuSE and Fedora has plenty of them, with SuSE's Yast being the most organized of them...

Which is exactly the reason why Slack beats the
others hands down :}


Cheers,
Tink

hi there.

bad comparison... depends what you want to do..

fedora and suse are ok. the guys that use one will enjoy the other.

but slackware... ?
like Tinkster said. read his post.
you should compare slack with debian, gentoo, and so on...

IMHO, the user profile of those distros are quite different: suse, fedora and slackware

my

regards

slackie1000

Well, I compared those because those are the ones I'm interested in .

Can someone tell me more about slackware? Why does it have no config tools?

hi there,

There are config tools. They are shell scripts and text files that you can edit.


i suggest a look here or here.

IMHO, slackware primary goals are stability, performance and unix-like style. These don't include user-friendly installation or automatic package management tools.
anyway i suggest a look here also.

hope it helps

regards

slackie1000

Slackware is more geared toward the advanced do-it-yourself linux crowd. If you are planning to use Slackware, you better plan to learn a lot about your configuration files and how you manually change settings vs. using a program to do it for you.

My suggestion is try Slackware and see if you like it. Even if you don't you will learn the manual way of changing many settings and you can use that knowledge when working with most Linux systems in general.

The biggest difference in Fedora vs. SuSE is SuSE has better plug-n-play support by default (and has Yast) and Fedora uses Gnome instead of KDE by default. Besides that there are just lots of little settings that are different and can be changed anyways.

gee, i wonder why slackware is in the lead....

i gotta stop voting slackware in every poll like everyone else!!!

(or maybe these polls shouldn't include slackware anymore because it's a given it'll win).

i've used all of them before but i prefer debian. Most of long time linux users don't use fedora/suse unless they are in the entreprise and need support. Most of redhat users i know almost can't use another linux because they bought a redhat book and have been running only redhat for many years. They understand rpm and redhat but not LINUX... :-)

I, on the other hand, have tried all the distros above, including Debian and Slackware and I simply got stuck with SuSE. Though, it was great using Debian and Slackware: If something brakes in SuSE, I can find my way without any tool. Though, I never truly needed it... SuSE seems quite robust for me .

Slackware is a tied distribution with SuSE for me, but since I've SuSE installed and nothing is wrong right now, I will stick with it for a long, long while

I ordered slackware and suse..so I'll try both using Vmware. Shal' be fun. Not much to using SuSe im sure...so I'll start with slack.

Dear LQ users,

It is not true that Slackware does not have GUI configuration tools. In KDE Control Center you can adjust any parameters about lilo, samba, printer, power, acpi, network, display, users and a lot more... All in one organized in a central KDE control center...So not just like but similar to SuSE's Yast..

However, I choose to edit .conf files instead..It is much more flexible. But it is true that sometimes you have to manually edit some files to get things work (i.e. mouse-wheel and sound)..

So please consider this fact..Slackware may be suitable for beginners, too. The hardest thing in Slackware is the package management. Apart from that, it is not so different from other distros.

Ekin

Hello and welcome to LQ. You are relatively new here, so you might not have known that you should not resurrect old threads. Now you do, so please stop replying to other stale threads. TIA


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