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Which other distro?

After tinkering without much success with Solaris. I now find I have spare disk space on which I can tinker about with another distro.

So the idea is that I would like to install a Gnome based distribution which is as stable and fast as Slackware.

Any recommendations?

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Originally Posted by tamtam (Post 3321732)

Give FreeBSD a shot. It is pretty solid and the documentation is great. It is not a distro, but then again, nor is Solaris ;)

I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 in a dual boot with Slackware 12.1. FreeBSD is a rock-solid OS. Lilo plays very nicely with FreeBSD:-)

How about Slackware + Dropline GNOME ?

Try the distro test in my sig, it will tell you what others there might be.

If you're into Gnome for Slackware in addition to DLG you can also use GSB:

http://gnomeslackbuild.org/download/

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Originally Posted by hitest (Post 3321966)

If you're into Gnome for Slackware in addition to DLG you can also use GSB:

http://gnomeslackbuild.org/download/

Gnome SlackBuild is great.

I, however, am happily using Gnome Slacky.

If you just want another distro to play with, archlinux is nice too. :twocents:
(not as stable as Slackware, maybe)

Thanks for the suggestions guys, although I am not looking to run Gnome on Slackware. I previously run Slack 11 with Dropline and found that after installing I never used it. Looking for something different so will give FreeBSD a try.

If you want risk-free installations of other distros or Unix-like operating systems, you might consider installing in a virtual machine first. If you mess up there, you can start from zero without impact (just delete the VM).
After playing around in the VM and feeling comfortable with it, you can do your real install on your hard drive.

I have installed several Unices this way, including OpenSolaris, Minix, FreeBSD, and distros like Fedora, Debian, and others.

Personally I use VMware, but there are other solutions available.

Ubuntu or Debian or Foresight

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Originally Posted by amani (Post 3323168)

Ubuntu

Wouldn't recommend it, because OP wants

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Gnome based distribution which is as stable and fast as Slackware.

To my experience Ubuntu is VERY slow when compared to slackware...

right on the money ErV....

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Originally Posted by tamtam (Post 3323097)

Looking for something different so will give FreeBSD a try.

FreeBSD is an excellent choice. The FreeBSD handbook is an excellent source of information as you prepare to install. Sysinstall is similar in appearance, functionality to our Slackware ncurses installer.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ook/index.html

Hi hitest,

whats your lilo look like to boot freebsd. I currently have grub as my bootloader as required to boot solaris. Going to restore lilo. Installed FreeBSD, or thought I did. Getting the boot error and F?. Going to reformat the drive in FAT32 with fdisk or cfisk and reinstall. My system is as follows..

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In Slackware Speak...

hda1 - Windows XP.
hda2 - Slackware \
hda3 - Swap
hda4 - Slackware \home

hdb - FreeBSD

Hi tamtam - I know you addressed you your question to hitest but as I run Windows, Slackware and FreeBSD I thought this might help.

I only have the one hard disk partitioned like so:

Code:

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1  *          1        6374    51199123+  7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda2            6375        7011    5116702+  a5  FreeBSD

/dev/sda3            7012      20357  107201745  83  Linux

/dev/sda4          20358      38913  149047136+  5  Extended

/dev/sda5          20358      26809    51820512+  83  Linux

/dev/sda6          26809      27052    1951866  83  Linux

/dev/sda7          27052      27295    1951866  82  Linux swap

/dev/sda8          27295      28511    9767488+  83  Linux

/dev/sda9          28511      28997    3903763+  83  Linux

/dev/sda10          28997      38427    75746443+  83  Linux

/dev/sda11          38427      38913    3904976    b  W95 FAT32

and the corresponding lilo.conf to boot Vista, Slackware 12.0 and FreeBSD looks like this :

Code:

# LILO configuration file

lba32 # Allow booting past 1024th cylinder with a recent BIOS

menu-title = " ** DELLHOST ** "

compact

boot = /dev/sda

default=Linux_Initrd

prompt

timeout = 1200

change-rules

reset

vga = 773

# Windows bootable partition config begins

other = /dev/sda1

label = Windows

table = /dev/sda

# Windows bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins

image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.21.5-smp

initrd=/boot/initrd.gz

root = /dev/sda6

label = Linux_Initrd

read-only

#

image = /boot/vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp

root = /dev/sda6

label = Linux_Huge

read-only

# Linux bootable partition config ends

# BSD

other=/dev/sda4

label=FreeBSD

table=/dev/sda

#

Note that this FreeBSD stanza loads FreeBSD's bootloader. You should easily be able to adapt this to suit.