I'm on a slow internet connection, and I want a true copy of the OS so I'm going to buy it, thank you for suggesting I download it.

Now with that out of the way, I was wondering how release 10 is, I'm coming from Fedora Core 1 and it's been flawless, and it comes with great programs.

I'll be using it for personal computing, just wondering if it comes with programs like GFTP, Open Office, GIMP (Hopefully release 2).

I couldn't find a complete list of all the apps installed, any one know of one?

Also, any installation problems I should really know about? It'll be going into a Intel Celeron Dual 500 Mhz with a SCSI CD-ROM.

It comes without openoffice.
you can check what packages installed directly through ftp://ftp.slackware.com

For a list of softwares, go to www.slackware.com and browse the packages section

Dude, make the jump. I did the same thing (FC1&2 to Slack 10). It well worth it and worth the work for a rock solid system.

Also, use Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OO.o, much better apps.

GFTP, yes - it's part of GNOME.
OpenOffice, no, you'll have to download and install that seperately, but it isn't too hard.
GIMP, yes, version 2.0.2 comes with Slack 10.

A good place to compare exactly what software comes with which distros is DistroWatch.

Plus, as has been said, you can browse the packages for slackware at http://www.slackware.com/pb/?vers=slackware-10.0

The package browser for 10.0 is empty here, the current version is working fine. Since Slackware-current has become 10.0 recently the packages listed in current are the 10.0 packages.

If you want to download a text file containing the packages :
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...0/PACKAGES.TXT

What I don't understand here is why not to ship the openoffice with the slackware package..
It costs about 30$ and it's not that hard to add another disk that will include all the essential progs.
So, right, people don't want to download all three disks like in other distros, so we want it to be more compact and make a kind of a tradeoff, but if you sell it, then at least bring all what's needed for full slackware experience to the customer...

Maybe it is due because slackware is made with no profit in mind

You can't tell me that at $40 a copy, they aren't making a profit.

I can't comment that...

Just go to www.slackware.com and point me a page with a price

Unit profit? Yes. But how many copies do they sell, especially with the relatively low profile Slackware tends to take these days? I doubt they do much more than break even, once overheads are taken into consideration.

And $40 is not that much. Compare that with most other distros. Most of them cost at least that much for an official diskset.

http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/s...tFj2p&mv_pc=14

Hello:

If we users of Slackware do not support it financially, who else will? I feel it is our responsibility to help Slackware exist!

So, please, please buy from Slackware store.

Anand

Subscription is only $25 per release, $40 for a one time purchase. However since, unlike other "major" distros Slackare is a 2-3 person operation the overhead is not as high.

OO.o is nice, but definitely not needed to get the full Slackware experience. Just download it. I appreciate that you are on a dial-up connection but open office is only 76.4MB as compared to 1000 and change MB for the first two CDs of Slack. If you don't have the patience to download OO.o, you can buy a CD for ~$6, probably less, that is just from a random link I followed.

EDIT: Not to suggest you not get Slackware (I love it) but if Fedora Core 1 has been flawless for you why change? If you are trying to gain experience in Linux Slack is a good choice though.

Thanks for the package links, I found most of them but reading PACKAGE NAME: a2ps-4.13b-i386-2.tgz doesn't really help, I was hoping for a nice neat list that clearly stated the packages.

I went to the package section and noticed that they don't really have a lot (If any) packages listed.

I was mostly concerned about having GIMP 2 pre-installed because I was going to do it with Fedora Core 1 but it needs around 5 other packages which I don't want to download and install.

Abiword looks pretty good, guess I'd have to use it to really appreciate how good it really is. I noticed you can only get the source and compile it though, which is kind of what I want.

I'm hoping Slackware will be a bit more involved then FC1, right now it's just like using a stable version of windows without Photoshop :P

P.S. Does anyone know if it supports a Ethernet Card with a Prism 2.5 chipset. Someone at another forum was going to install FC2 but couldn't do it because the chipset wasn't supported.

P.P.S I've been hearing mixed reactions about the linux 2.6 kernal, mainly that it's not as stable as the 2.4 kernal. Any truth to this? Because I want to install the latest and best of everything.