[Linux-Anyway] Re: refugee
- From: HaywireMac <haywiremac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 05:24:37 -0400
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:04:32 +0200
Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx> uttered:
> As things are now, the gw/fw is *still* running Slack 8.0 and has been
> up for:
>
> ~$ uptime
> 10:59am up 34 days, 1:11, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
Well, I can't complain in that regard either...
This is my P166 server:
05:13:22 up 34 days, 23:18, 1 user, load average: 0.88, 1.16, 1.48
suffering mightily under MLDonkey.
Like I said in another post, it was up for 90 days til the big blackout,
I was seriously pissed about that, LOL!
> The only occasions on which I've had to take it down are for kernel
> upgrades(it's running 2.4.22 now) and in the event of power outages
> that the UPS couldn't cover.
>
> My workstation and the laptop have both been upgraded to 8.1 and then
> 9.0 since then.
>
> > I figure until I can learn how to work basic stuff like Apache and
> > Postfix, I'll stay where I'm comfy.
>
> Fair enough, as long as you realise that you're only seeing the part
> of Linux that Mandrake wants you to see. In some ways, Mandrake is to
> Linux what Windows is to DOS: a fancy but dumbed down GUI which
> doesn't let you get your hands into the innards of the system.
Howz that? I try to configure everything by hand, ie. from the command
line, I don't use Webmin or the Wizards to config Postfix or Apache or
anything for that matter. I'm familiar with just about everything in
/etc, I don't see where they're hiding anything from me.
The *only* complaint I have, and I don't know if this is
Mandrake-specific or not, is the sound. I constantly have problems with
XMMS or MPlayer not releasing /dev/dsp, so when I go to play Quake, I
get no sound, and no matter what I do, I end up in a lot of cases having
to reboot.
IIRC, I have seen mention that Slack handles sound differently, it that
true?
And what about package management, Slack, I've been told, is pretty much
strictly source-based.
Would you recommend Slack over Gentoo?
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