Actually this is excatly what I was looking for. This reminds me of
Debian. Debian was the same way..very stable but also a bit delayed in
the versions. I really like the "true linux" feel as well. Mint
doesn't have that feeling plus its awful slow on older hardware. That
whole black boot screen bugs me as well. Out of the box VL-7 has
everything I need from the get-go and its light on resources. If a
step-mom can run it, maybe my 7 year old can play her Minecraft without
complaining its so slow... we'll see what happens. :)
~Ross
On 6/29/2012 11:58 PM, Chad Bailey wrote:
I've always been a huge fan of Slackware and it's been my primary
linux distribution for I'm guessing around 8 years. I'm not sure if I
can speak directly to your question, but here's my take on Slackware
and its strengths/weaknesses
Slackware does not have a package management system, "slack packs" are
just tarballs inside. Slackware has a very limited number of
developers, and a lot of content control within those developers. This
results in a few things, first it's slow to adapt to new technologies.
Second it is extremely stable and tends to have less strange issues.
Third it's not real popular, so sometimes getting something to work
properly on it can be a one man show (yourself) since typing "getting
X to work in Ubuntu" might return results no matter how obscure X is,
Slackware doesn't have that luxury.
Slackware is very streamlined and generally comes with only what is
needed. This means it runs well on old PC's but comes with less
overall so you may discover some common software missing. Slackware is
close to what I consider "true linux", meaning they do not often
deviate from standards. Run levels and the operation of slackware is
normally what you would expect, as opposed to some
custom concoction slackware has designed for itself to use.
That's about it for my generalizations about slackware. I love the
distro but it does have its advantages and disadvantages. I would say
the biggest disadvantage is the delay it has. I recall going from
kernel 2.4 to 2.6 occured many years after other distros were on 2.6.
The good news is though, this tends to mean a more stable and well
tested system overall.
As for Vector Linux, I have no experience. You have me interested though!
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Ross Gregg <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This is the first Slackware distro I've tried as well. I was
mainly looking for a speedy lightweight distro for some older
hardware. OpenMotif (2.3.3) and libXP (1.0.1) do come up in the
package list on VL-7. For some reason the package manager was the
hardest thing to find...but its there - GSlapt.
~Ross
On 6/28/2012 12:46 AM, Marshall Davis wrote:
The only thing I have run into was getting the Citrix client
to work. Since it is only available as a binary, it has some
pretty stringent dependencies, openmotif and libXP were the
main ones I had issues getting to work. I was running openbox
on gentoo, so it may not be an issue on slack, that's one of
the few major distros I haven't touched.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Vector Linux and or other Slackware
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:15:31 -0400
From: Ross Gregg <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: JaxLUG <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Hey everyone,
Anyone know of any gotchas with Vector Linux or any other
Slackware
based distro? I'm trying VL on a virtual box and so far its
pretty
fast. I'm thinking I might replace my Mint install with VL.
Thanks,
~Ross
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