First Impressions of 14.1
 

Really, you folks that build up Slackware are doing __TOO__ good of a job. Everything has 'just worked' right out of the box. I've not tested my printers or scanners, they can wait. But when I can get wifi access without doing anything more than selecting "Network Manager" during the install, my hair feels very, very secure <GRIN>.

Thanks for the good work.

Nice to hear =)

Thanks for the feedback and Happy Slacking.

Agree 100%. They need to study other distros, learn how to get things wrong. :)

Member Response
 

Hi,

Shhhh! Well kept secret. No way we want everyone to know that Slackware is so great. :)

I'm not surprised Slackware is so good. After all, there are goblins and aliens working on it. Other distros only have humans. ;)

I am happy that you are enjoying Slackware. Once you Slack you never go back. Welcome to the official Slackware forum. :)

Member Response
 

Hi,

Yes, Welcome to Slackware and the Official Slackware forum where you will get helpful information & assistance from fellow LQ Slackware users.

As you can see, we are friendly. At least at most times. :)

Yikes, is my face red. Asked about Network Manager in 14.1 then answered my own question. Is there some way to delete a post?

i'm absolutely delighted with Slackware. i've been using it since 13.37, mostly in dual-boot, but now Slackware is only OS on my computer. Thank you guys for this fantastic distro :)

Keep in mind that NetworkManager will not correctly use NTP information that is provided via DHCP.

fsalk,
I started with 13.0.
Never felt so good to be a newb :-)

More spam (reported in another thread, another forum). May The Wrath Of "Bob" strike you down, spammer!!!
Vietnamese?

I thought it was some alien dialect...

ET phoning home?

I moved from Vector Linux on a ThinkPad 760XL to uncle Slack about the time I dropped OS/2 Warp and have never looked back. Initial impression of 14.1 as opposed to 14.0 is that this is an incremental update. I thought there was a huge difference between 13.37 and 14.0. Two notable differences in 14.1 are the loss of the pwd on the path for unpriveledged users and moving aumix out to pasture. No real problems with either of these. I like the fact that one can use the most recent version of libreOffice using Alien Bob's packages in 14.1. Installations of 14.1 so far have been 32 bit versions on old computers whose primary tasks are processing BOINC work units e.g. Einstein@home, MilkyWay@home, etc. Rob Elemans has written a great review which is linked at Distrowatch. I believe that Mr. Eleman's review of Slackware 14.1 really captures the spirit of the Slackware way of doing things and his review certainly parallels my experience of using Slackware. In short I am a happy camper. Next task is for me to gain the courage to install the 64 bit version on a dual-core computer which is currently running the 32 bit version of 13.37. One final note on version 14.1 ... the slackupdate shell script from darklinux.net seems to run a bit slower on 14.1 then it did on 14.0, but this is not a deal breaker.

Once you try Slackware you never go back. You might still distro hop and, even if you do it a lot, eventually you will go back to Slackware.

its nice to hear all the folks here waxing lyrically about Slack :-) although not everyone has the same flawless experience.......... it is taking me a lot of effort to get some things working as i think they ought to.

other distros... worked out of the box on the machine i use! lets have a balanced view here :-)


now then, i will admit this.... despite the effort, i quite like the Slack venture and hope to arrive where you folks are all at :-)

OK, here is an isue with the 64-bit version of Slackware 14.1 ... in all previous 32 bit installations I have come to rely on the Slackupdate shell script from http://darklinux.net what this does is compared your installed packages /var/log/packages with the versions that are up on mirror sites and it downloads updated packages to /tmp/slackupdate/ so that [root] may install them. This does not work in the 64-bit version of Slackware 14.1 but does continue to work in the 32-bit version.

How do I work to insure that I have the latest versions of packages? Debian users have something called apt-get which I don't know much about but in reading about this it looks like it is used to install packages that you do not have in your installation, that's not what I am looking for. Any ideas?

The GNUinator, check up on slackpkg, nothing new here, has been in Slackware for ages.

Eric

SOLVED how to upgrade x86_64 packages in 14.1
 

Thank you Alien Bob. slackpkg has an easy to understand man page. I think I got lazy by relying so long on Slackupdate.sh so did not realize there was a better way to upgrade packages.