Shannon Roddy wrote: > Hmmm... I just installed slackware 10 the other day. It seemed true to > its roots since I ran it around '95-98. It is basic, no bloat, KDE and > Gnome, or less bloated window managers if you so choose (blackbox, etc), > very simple init scripts, well tested, etc. I would recommend that you > at least try it.... I liked what I saw even though it was the first > slackware install that I did that was not from a floppy... :-) Anyone > remember downloading ~40 floppies worth of stuff under Win 95 so that > you could install Slack? Remember all the a, ap, n, d, etc. images?
Oh yeah. I remember that very well. I was doing some housecleaning the other day and came across my notebook from that time. Since it took days to complete an install I took notes throughout. Noted more than a few bad floppies as part of the process. And the kernel build! 2.0 wasn't modular so rebuilding with just the devices you had installed compiled in made a huge difference. But boy did it take some time on a 486-SX with 4M RAM and no man co-processor. > Also, as for the 2.6 kernel, I read an article the other day about > putting the 2.6 kernel on the Slack distro with very little trouble. I > will have to see if I can find the article in the morning. I have been > up for ~26 hours now and need SLEEP... :-) yipes. -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers" gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
