Slackware is elegant, but...
Hi
This is my first post in a linux forum. Im definitely a newbie.
Ive been using Microsoft software for a decade now. And recently having a distro of Linux has become inevitable!
Ive read alot about all the distros out there, and Ive tried SuSE 9.0 Pro, it wasnt what I was looking for, add to that the fact that it really didnt "feel right", if I may say so.
So I decided to go for Slackware 10, and wow, thats what I call an OS! the installation wasnt as user-friendly as SuSE, but I managed, thanks to this website and other Linux websites.
Slackware Linux is very very elegant, it fits like a glove, it "feels right", its fast, and its very "light" although I installed the whole thing (about 3GB).
I had a couple of problems though, the video card settings (nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200), and the integrated sound settings.
I still have some questions I'd like to ask regarding issues I still have problems with:
1) I tried to install RealPlayer 8. I tried to do that using a .bin file, and I was logged in as "user". RP8 was installed but RP started acting weird, it opens, but u cant see anything, its just a black window, and its takes alot of time for it to close, usually I need to kill it!
after rebooting I got a very weird message in CLI mode, it was sth like: "run Clean Disk" or sth like that, I wonder what that meant???
2) How to uninstall RP8 that was installed using a .bin file???
3) later, I tried installing it using [pkgtool] and a .tgz file and installed beautifully, but RP still didnt open properly, and gave me that black window that doesnt close, Whats causing that???
4) I try to keep an eye on "RAM usage", and it starts with about 100MB, yet a couple of hours later it goes up to about 300 or 400 MB, How can this be explained???
Your answers are appreciated.
thanks,
Pete Abel
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