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

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