A pleasant day to all of you! Im planning to switch to slackware since redhat is outdated. I just want to welcome my self to Linuxquestions.org and at the same time to linux world.

I have several question.

1) what is the difference between redhat and slackware?
2) advantage and disadvantage?
3) what will be the problem that i will encounter during the installation of slackware?


Thank you guys and more power!

Slackware tends to be harder (IMHO) than redhat. It is not for the faint harted There are few (if any) graphical config tools, and the system assumes that you know what you are doing.

Redhat / Fedora tend to have more GUI tools, and a better package management system (YUM).

Slackware is closer to unix than other distros, with some files located in different places.

I would possibly suggest updating to a newer version of Fedora, such as FC4, if you are already confortable with Redhat.

--Ian

Redhat is outdated?? Where is that coming from?

There are a bazillion choices these days. If you already have it down to Redhat vs. Slackware, then you must have already done a bunch of research. Why Slackware and not---Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, SUSE.....etc.?

My standard advice is to install ANY of the free distros and then try something else after discovering things that don't work the way you would like.

For comparisons, try distrowatch.

Not so many times ago I changed RedHat for slackware. And now I'm happy
So, look here:
1) Slackware has simpler package system. It's without checking of dependences.
2) RedHat has some problems with localization. It has many files and folders which are should be changed when you want to use some language which is not English. (I'm from Russia). When you use slackware there are only 3 files which are needed to change.
3) When you want to change your kernel in RedHat you'd better to use special kernel from redhat.com. For slackware you can use original kernel from kernel.org.
4) Slackware has BSD like initialization. I think it more usable then SysV initialization.
5) Slackware has not GUI config tools. But I don't need these.

Hey guys thank you for your reply. since the cd's of fedora and slackware is rarely available in the Philippines. The thread is still open for suggestion. Thank you very much

I don't understand...What do you have available? What kind of internet connection do you have?

You can order Linux CDs from amny web vendors--Ubuntu will send you CDs for free!!

You can also get CDs bundled with magazines like Linux Format