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Any articles you read that claim Slackware is difficult were probably written by someone who tried an early release, and hasn't bothered with it since.
When you install the latest slackware, almost everything works out of the box.
There are enough GUI tools to configure your system.
The time that you needed to edit files to get it all working is gone.
Nano or pico are good and easy to use editors for the CLI, no need for vi.
Any articles you read that claim Slackware is difficult were probably written by someone who tried an early release, and hasn't bothered with it since.
Ah yes...her. Chairperson of the DeSlackify Slackware Campaign. She wrote a review ages ago, and trots it out with every release, only changing the release number, and version numbers for gcc, firefox, etc.
Ah yes...her. Chairperson of the DeSlackify Slackware Campaign. She wrote a review ages ago, and trots it out with every release, only changing the release number, and version numbers for gcc, firefox, etc.
Er... why can't she just make her own Slackware-based distribution or something?
Er... why can't she just make her own Slackware-based distribution or something?
I even believe she is about to do this (or rather base it off Salix). I saw a post on the Salix forum about that some time ago, unfortunately I can not find it back now.
... something I don't understand. I'm sure you are all familiar with the saying that if you learn Red Hat, you'll know Red Hat, etc etc, but if you learn Slackware, you'll know Linux.
What exactly is it that's different with Slackware than another distribution like Ubuntu then? ...
the big difference is that Slackware comes with "all packages vanilla", which means that programs are not adapted to Slackwares needs. This again means that you can read the manpage of a program in order to learn how it works on your system. With other distributions you'll often have to find out what the hell has the manpage to do with your system.
just do it !
i install today slackware 13.1 64 bit and in this moment im happy because work all,
i try gnome too and this work very well
after install then u know what u must make because this is not automatic like ubuntu
but that is nice,u must think and use CLI
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