[plug] RedHat/Mandrake

[Beau Kuiper]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, NVT Australia wrote:

> Hi Beau
>
> Thanks for the kind offer. If Slackware 8 is in the wind I will wait to
> avoid the culture shock. Do think the version 8 will have a good GUI
> interface for us newbies?

probably not, slackware is known for its simplelistic text based install.
You have to use the command line version of fdisk to partition your hard
drive. you need to manually configure a swapspace. Configuration of the
software, while somewhat handled by the installer, is mostly up to the
user. You will probably need to complie your own kernel for best results.

The GUI needs to setup manually (via xf86config), so the GUI simply won't
work until you learn how to use xf86config. :-) It really isn't as hard as
I make out though

It isn't for beginners, unless you are prepared to learn a lot about
linux, and unix in general. However, on your side, there are lots of
howto's that explain everything from getting your networks and modems
working, up to configuring and compiling a kernel.

Slackware is almost the extreme end of do-it -yourselfness

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

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> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beau Kuiper [mailto:kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 6:37 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] RedHat/Mandrake
>
>
> Hi,
>
> My slackware is a little old (7.0), and slackware isn't really designed
> for the beginner (unless you like steep learning curves, and doing
> everything with minimal software support, no package system, and no fancy
> configuration systems)
>
> Slackware 8 should be good once it's done.
>
> but if you still want to play with slackware, just email me, and I can
> provide disks and the software updates I have done on CD (Xfree 4.0.1,
> KDE2.1, linux 2.2.19, ect)
>
> Beau Kuiper
> kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, NVT Australia wrote:
>
> > Oooh sounds interesting.
> >
> > Where can we find a copy of slackware for a look?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Beau Kuiper [mailto:kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 5:54 PM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: RE: [plug] RedHat/Mandrake
> >
> >
> > Evil laugh,
> >
> > Both redhat and mandrake suck :-)
> >
> > Redhat feels clunky in operation, mandrake is worse and just often doesn't
> > work at all.
> >
> > The only distribution I have been happy with is slackware.
> >
> > There thats my opionon. As you can see, we all love/like different
> > distributions, and will defend our choices/opinions to the edge of the
> > universe (if not far beyond). So the best advice I can give is to find
> > some time and try several of them to find which is the best for YOU.
> >
> > If you don't have time to do this, then the distribution you choose is not
> > going to matter too much. Most of them are similar, and you are not going
> > to have time to worry about the differences between them anyway.
> >
> > Beau Kuiper
> > kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, NVT Australia wrote:
> >
> > > As a Newbie checking them all......
> > >
> > > I installed Red Hat 7.1, Mandrake 8, Debian 2.2R3 (oh headache), Corel
> Ed
> > 2
> > > and Suse 7.1 and even though I am pretty green I found Red Hat 7.1 was
> so
> > > easy to install and looks very clean to work with. Most features of the
> OP
> > > SYS were really well laid out.
> > >
> > > My vote goes to Red Hat 7.1.
> > >
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