Value for Time

gspencer@ihug.co.nz · 06-04-2006, 07:25 AM

WOW! This is a great distro. Having tried Gentoo a year ago and given up, I am really impressed by this distro. As a Mac user, I can't beieve that I have just finished installing Slackware on a $100 256Mb RAM machine and it is performing as well as a G3! Great!!
Well and truly worth the day and a half it took me to build the box and do the install.
Anyone on a budget and with little experience could do a lot worse than spending a few hours mucking around with this distro.

Randux · 06-04-2006, 08:11 AM

Yeah, Slackware does indeed rule. It was love at first boot

truthfatal · 06-04-2006, 08:19 AM

We could do a lot worse indeed!

Samoth · 06-04-2006, 08:21 AM

Slack rocks! BTW, if you tried Gentoo a year ago and were discouraged, well, remember that it is a very advanced distrobution for slackers to learn how Pat makes all his packages(interesting way to put it) and puts together the whole system. This is one step lower than Slack, and one step higher than LFS(build everything by hand from scratch). After a few years of liking slack many people try Gentoo and get hooked. I would too but for my bandwidth.