Seriously considering switching to slack
 

I'm getting fed up with SuSE, I hate it's "integration" with KDE, I want to learn more about linux. However, I am only an advanced beginner at best, would anyone still recommend slackware?

Yes. It is easy to use and is a myth that it is difficult to install :)

It is one of the best distos IMHO :)

Once you go Slack you'll never go back. Try it and you'll see it's just awesome. :)

Thats the reason I went to Slack and it is great.

Re: Seriously considering switching to slack
 

once you try slackware,you will never use another distro anymore!I have used Redhat,Suse,Mandrake,Debian they're all good,but Slackware is BEST!sure for other ppl other distro is best!I am in love with Slacware Linux:D
Slackware is pure Linux,add free!no advertisement or promotion,KDE or GNOME is not preconfigured!after installation you see in your computer pure Linux!you can't even find slackware logo or sign anywhere!no dependencies hell!Slackware is fast,stable,runs smoothly and seamlessly and secure!Slackware teachs!Slackware is the Linux what the Linux should be!

ps:I don't say that other distros are bad,they're all good.Linux BEST!

Wow, that was fast. I just reformated my linux drive because apparently installing a new version of gnome that isn't "SuSEized" cripples your system, so I might try installing slackware soon.

yea you need to install Suse version of kde and gnome.

go slack. i went from flipflopped from suse and redhat and stuck to slack and never went back. i hardly remembered myself in the command line using those distros.

get ya hands dirty, fix problems quicker.

Very true. Slackware is one of the easiest to install distros that exist (perhaps the easiest, IMO). The installation program is curses based (text and ASCII graphics) instead of X based, but that certainly doesn't make it hard, just less pretty.

Yes, well I've always found it very amusing that is has 'curses' in the installer name.

And it is not the easiest to install, there are many other easier ones to install and it requires more effort to get it started, but its not really that much effort. Unless of course, your hardware isnt supported. Then its a bitch. :) But that goes for any disto, so....

Complete newbie to linux and I tried red hat. It sort of failed my expectations of how linux should be. So after reading this forum about slackware for a while I decided to install it.

Was very basic too install. Really don't know what all the fuss is about in regards to slack installations.

WIthin a couple of hours of having it installed I had my audigy pumping out mp3s, nvidia drivers installed and quake3 running. Got connected to the network printer, installed the latest Mozilla. Tis all good.

It runs so much faster than my old rh installation. Guess thats because it doesnt have half the bloat.

Gotta dig those crafty quotes everytime you login. :P

First post! :D

How does Slackware handle dependencies?

I had a copy of mandrake and a copy of slack. After 8 hours of fooling around with Mandrake, I gave up. Within an hour, slack was working fine. I think it's great for a beginner.

There's nothing by default that I know of that handles dependencies, although swaret can do it (and does so when you upgrade or install new software with it). Normally it's not too difficult to work out what needs to be installed to get something to work, you just have to look at the error messages to see what libraries are missing and you're away.

juts removepkg bsd-games if you are annoyed by the quotes.

Ah.... Threads like these give me a warm fuzzy..... If you've never tried Slackware, reading comments such as those contained in this thread will tend to make you roll your eyes and scoff, but really..... Slackware IS truely a great distro... Can't really explain it, and everyone here knows what I'm talking about..... It just inherently raidiates a stability that you will never find in another distro..... As the old saying goes..... "If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand......"