Thoughts, feelings on Slackware Linux?

[Nothinman]

You realize this is total bunk, right?

Not at all. Sure there are slackware packages, but there's no dependency information or anything so IMO that makes them virtually useless.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

You realize this is total bunk, right?

Not at all. Sure there are slackware packages, but there's no dependency information or anything so IMO that makes them virtually useless.

Your statement was "it's got no package management," which is false. You also stated: "uses the BSD init system" which is also false. Hence, your statement was bunk.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Oh yeah, and there are better package management systems with slackware than the old one they had. I think there is supposed to be a new package management system with 10.0, but I haven't played with it. I'm guessing Nothinman has and it isn't all that great.

If you try Slack, try slaptget or swaret. They're both decent, and handle dependencies.

 

[BaldAvenger]

BTW, I googled ubuntu and downloaded the live CD so I could try it out. Sounded too good to pass up. Still gonna try out slackware, tho.

 

[djdrastic]

What these guys say is pretty true . I used slack 10 for a long while , and the lack of community is really harsh . There is a nice package repo tool called swaret that does the same as grub / apt etc . PLEASE USE THIS TO INSTALL PACKAGES OR ELSE !!!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: djdrastic
What these guys say is pretty true . I used slack 10 for a long while , and the lack of community is really harsh . There is a nice package repo tool called swaret that does the same as grub / apt etc . PLEASE USE THIS TO INSTALL PACKAGES OR ELSE !!!

I've never had a problem with the slackware community.

 

[Desireisis]

I don't agree with the statement about lack of comunity either.

You can get all your slack packages right here.
http://www.linuxpackages.net/

And while there isn't a forum on the slackware site, the official one is on linuxquestions.org in the slack distro section. They are very helpful.

I never used SWareT but heard great things, prefer to keep track of dependancies and make my own packages.

 

[stars]

The Slackware community is no worse than any other distro userbase. They will be always be rude elitists. Just over look them and enjoy your OS. I prefer the default package management of Slackware. You will rarely run across dependency problems unless you're constantly installing software. Even then, its not hard to compile and understand whatever you may need.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
dude, dont do slack... use ubuntu... its package management, its gui, and its ease of install and support are the best...

That's what I've heard, and I think I'm going to go that way.

 

[BaldAvenger]

Well, I went to the ubuntu site and d/loaded the livecd, but I am having one heck of a time making a bootable copy. Might there be something I am missing?

Oh, and I already have a copy of slack via a good friend who bought the distro CD pack.

 

[stars]

Which burning software are you trying to burn it with? You can easily burn the iso using burnatonce if youre having problems with your current software. http://www.burnatonce.com

 

[JDCentral]

Personally, I recommend Debian for new users and for production Linux servers (which is... stupid they're not using a BSD server), and gentoo if you want a gutsy/optimized distro. portage does an excellent job of package-management, and lets you compile from source (debian binaries are almost always 'vanilla' binaries.. .no optimizations for your specific proc, what-so-ever. More applicable on the PPC side, where LAME encoding gets like a 200% performance boost just from different CFLAGS)

 

[Kalessian]

If you want something like Slack, but with a great packaging manager/builder, try Arch Linux.

archlinux.org

Many Slack users migrate to Arch.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: JDCentral
Personally, I recommend Debian for new users and for production Linux servers (which is... stupid they're not using a BSD server), and gentoo if you want a gutsy/optimized distro. portage does an excellent job of package-management, and lets you compile from source (debian binaries are almost always 'vanilla' binaries.. .no optimizations for your specific proc, what-so-ever. More applicable on the PPC side, where LAME encoding gets like a 200% performance boost just from different CFLAGS)

Most programs don't get any kind of boost from these "optimizations." Also these optimizations often trigger obscure bugs in the various gnu tools.