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Re: Slackware
by Diederik on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @01:53
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The point of these distro's is not user friendlyness.
They are quite easy to setup and config ... once you know where everything
is and once you know every piece of hardware in your box.
But it's still editing text files.
Pretty simple and straightforward once you've figured it out.
My guess is a learning curve of a couple of months. But after
those months, you'll know what is what and why it is used, etc.
Automatic hardware recognition is close to zero :)
Slack sets up your NIC and that's about it :)
The main goal of these distro's is stability, security, ...
for the people who know how to handle them.
Adding gui config tools would just mess up the simplicity.
Definately worth a try though :) But expect a lot of hair loss in
the learning process.
Diederik |
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Re: Slackware
by aleXXX on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @02:13
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"Automatic hardware recognition is close to zero :)
Slack sets up your NIC and that's about it :)"
Are you using Slackware 9.1 or something older ?
With 9.1 the only thing I had to add manually was modprobe es1371 for my soundcard, all the rest (nic, usb printer, scanner, palm, via chipset) worked out of the box.
Bye
Alex
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Re: Slackware - Pretty simple and straightforward
by garbage on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @18:50
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Yeah right.
The information is not in any one place so you must waste the best years of your life scouring the net for fragmentary arcane items of information just to get it installed & working.
It's the year twenty o four and eliteist geek rationalisations are still being re hashed.
sheesh!
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