For Slackware fans: What's your 2nd fav OS?

introuble · 08-11-2006, 12:11 PM

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then i decided not to use it because i will not install Windows beside it

I'm sorry, what? I don't understand the reason in any way.

ahmed gamal · 08-11-2006, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by introuble

I'm sorry, what? I don't understand the reason in any way.

what i want to say that Windos is important form me

and it is in my primary partition

and BSD needs to be installed in primary partition too

so where can i install BSD

raska · 08-11-2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ahmed gamal

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and BSD needs to be installed in primary partition too

so where can i install BSD

You can have up to 4 primary partitions in a disk (talking about MS-DOS type partitions)
or you can combine them with up to 1 extended partition which can host a lot of logical partitions.

I don't know for BSD properly, but if an operative system can boot only from a primary partition (i.e. not from a logical partition), it has lost any respect from me.

Here, some reading about partitions, can get you started.

ahmed gamal · 08-11-2006, 12:31 PM

thank you about the link
but i can't repartition my drives because i have a lot of important data on my disk
what i want to ask for : does windows work on a disk that contains 4 primary partitions

raska · 08-11-2006, 12:36 PM

Yes it does.
You can have different operative systems in each partitions, and should not overlap themselves in any way.
Say, as an example: One windows xp, one Slackware and one BSD should be in 3 different primary partitions, and you can have one extended partition with a bunch of little logical partitions, maybe at least one for swap and other(s) to shared data between systems.

Though as the prices go down everyday, currently is quite easier to buy another hard disk to mess up with it.

Heimskringla · 08-11-2006, 12:45 PM

For linux distros I like Ubuntu followed by Knoppix.

I do use Windows XP (Professional) now and again, because some websites require IE, and I find virtual machines are a bit of a PITA to configure. XP lives on a ~4gb partition and gets booted on average of once every couple months.

MannyNix · 08-11-2006, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by introuble

FreeBSD is a great Operating System. I have ran it in the past exclusively for large periods of time. Due to unfortunate events I had to give it up [for now] and settle with Linux. FreeBSD is really not hard to use but it does have it's gotcha's. Lucky the FreeBSD Handbook is probably the best piece of documentation I've ever read.

I agree 100%, care to say about those unfortunate events?
However i found that running FreeBSD is not as fun as Slackware, i have to use linux emulation for tons of apps and i somehow feel tied to ports and their dependencies, my

but, as i said, i agree with you.

Anybody around here has tried crux? Care to post a comment? After reading this review
i feel like giving it another test run, my fav part is this

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Crux is like a good looking, really good looking, gorgeous, hot girl without any cheap perfume or makeup, waiting for you to customize her in any way you see fit. On top of that, she is free, permanent and wont make absurd and disturbing demands.

vharishankar · 08-13-2006, 09:29 PM

The FreeBSD handbook is a great lifesaver and I like the way how it's easy to set up hardware in FreeBSD as compared to Linux which sometimes involves kernel recompiling.

x0as · 08-14-2006, 07:34 AM

Only other OS I use is debain, I wouldn't say either debian or slackware if my favourite. I prefer debian as a desktop and server os and slackware for development.

I liked using gentoo but got fed up of the long compile times.

Youri · 08-14-2006, 08:36 AM

i voted arch but also lfs these 3 os's share a 1st place

Worksman · 08-15-2006, 10:25 PM

ArchLinux because it seems the next in order, stable, fast (i686), free of thousands of ugly patches (the reason I hate Gentoo) distribution.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, otherwise cheers!

Ali Kazmi 2040 · 08-17-2006, 07:14 AM

Have been using slackware for some time now. Recently tried my hands on Suse too and liked it to an extent (the only problem being its over-simplified nature), but its a really nice distro.

Worksman · 08-17-2006, 07:32 AM

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Have been using slackware for some time now. Recently tried my hands on Suse too and liked it to an extent (the only problem being its over-simplified nature), but its a really nice distro.

I hate those type of distro's! Like Ubuntu, very hard to customize! It's like you got your hands tied.

fireedo · 08-17-2006, 08:21 AM

Yes I think I'm a slackware fans because everytime I try to install and use other distro I always come back to slackware eventhough other distro give me a lot of easy configuration or something but then I feel boring.....
I think I need a distro that not to easy to configure but not to hard and I found it in Slackware

about my second OS it will be windows....cant deny it because sometimes I cant find a replacement software for somethings that only work on windows

but Slackware is my main OS

Worksman · 08-17-2006, 02:46 PM

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Yes I think I'm a slackware fans because everytime I try to install and use other distro I always come back to slackware eventhough other distro give me a lot of easy configuration or something but then I feel boring.....
I think I need a distro that not to easy to configure but not to hard and I found it in Slackware

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Exactly the same here! I always came back to Slack ^_^ though I think ArchLinux could keep me entertained (not getting me bored because it's so easy), in fact I feel like moving to Arch again because I can't remember what it did to me last time that made me install Gentoo/Slackware... just kidding! ^^
I'm with Slackware! No matter what, I always get back to it.