I am installing Slackware

[Bazoukas]

Sure is uuummm, kinda challenging if you are new to Linux.

 I dont see this version of Linux being popular amongst the Windos crowd anytime soon.

[TheQuirk]

And it's not supposed to either. Linux shouldn't be switched to because it looks/acts like Windows, but because of th esheer capabilities of the OS.

[ October 07, 2002: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]

[voidmain]

You think it's tough now, you should have tried before there were any distros at all. Then it was fun! Today's distros are baby stuff compared to then. Even so, Slackware would not be something for someone looking for a "Windows-like" OS. It's somewhere in between the Linux of old and modern easy distros. If you really want to learn Linux inside and out stick with Slackware or Debian. If you want an easier time of things use the latest RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake, etc.

[Bazoukas]

Thats the good thing with Linux. There is all kinds of Linux flavors out there.

 One thing that I wont ever like is if the linux community starts making XPish looking GUI. Kinda like Gnome in RH8.
  I know you can change it and I know it was done so Windos people wont be afraid to make the jump.
     but my hat off to KDE (even though i am more of a Gnome man my self) for making an easy to use GUI and creating their own style(s).

[Bazoukas]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
You think it's tough now, you should have tried before there were any distros at all. Then it was fun! Today's distros are baby stuff compared to then. Even so, Slackware would not be something for someone looking for a "Windows-like" OS. It's somewhere in between the Linux of old and modern easy distros. If you really want to learn Linux inside and out stick with Slackware or Debian. If you want an easier time of things use the latest RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake, etc.

  I am very curious to see an old version of Slackware and have my head explode  

[TheQuirk]

RH8.0 installed the same themes on KDE. It really isn't KDE's or Gnome's fault though, it's RedHat. This can be a good thing OR a bad thing. It all depends on the way you look at it.

[voidmain]

Well, not ever having used XP (and never intend to) I can't speak for it. I don't mind the theme at all and if I didn't like it I would have clicked on a different theme in the desktop settings. So as far as I'm concerned if I ever *do* have to touch XP I would say, hmmmm, this XP looks a lot like RedHat rather than the other way around.    Personally, I could give a shit less about what it looks like as long as it's functional.

[preacher]

Actually the XPish looking gui is microsoft copying off of the MacOS X gui. In my opinion(since I use blackbox), the gui looks nothing like XP.....lol

[Bazoukas]

XP is the same with Win2000 on the GUI, just a lot of bloated like an old mans bowel icons.  I installed XP for my landloard and i couldnt wait to get the fak out of there.

 I never thought of it "the other way around".

te he he he. Sounds good to me.

[creedon]

quote:Originally posted by bazoukas:



  I am very curious to see an old version of Slackware and have my head explode    

I have Slack 2.0.3 (c.1994).  I'm not sure that it would run on "modern" hardware; I wouldn't try it on anything newer than a 486: it IS possible to cause your monitor to catch fire with the wrong settings in Xwindow.  If I can find enough old hardware, I may give it a shot sometime.

[hm_murdock]

Slack is the first version of Linux I ever tried... and I hated it. That was '95 or '96. I didn't give it another shot until Red Hat 5 hit the scene. Then I gave it a fair shake. Liked it better, but the showstopper was printer support. It's better now though. If I had to use a PC again, it'd be Linux

good luck with Slack, Bazoukas!

[Master of Reality]

an associate of mine has some type of linux from 1991 (or 1992) and its on a whole bunch of floppy disks. Would this be before there was any actual distros or would it be redhat or slackware??

I am gonna have to travel on a far adventure to go get the disks and try to install it on something, in accordance with the prophecy.

[voidmain]

It would probably be 1992 or later if there were a lot of floppies. The few distros that were available at that time were all floppy based. It was probably SLS or Slackware.