[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!
- From: Bill <rivetwa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:12:07 -0500
Ok....I'll inject my 2 cents (with interest!)
I started with SLS many years ago, switched to Slackware when, well, SLS
became defunct and Slackware took off...played with Stampede for a while
till it's second stall...then moved to Source-mage...really liked the
idea of casting spells and all, but the in-house bickering took it
offline for a while and wasn't quite what I was looking for so I finally
landed on....
www.gentoo.org
So far, I like Gentoo's approach. I've used it almost as long as I've
used Slackware now. (2+ years) It is easy to install...just download
however much you like, (I think 16Mb was my initial download for "stage
1", Stage 2 includes a more complete toolset used to build the final
"stage3", which is a fully functional system) Being a source-based
distribution it tends to be a bit large, in terms of disk space...though
apparently there are now binary-only ways of installing and ways of
cleaning out some of the "uneeded" cruft.
On the positive side, each and every pacakge is compiled with your
system's settings and customizations you want. Also, for example, if you
have zlib installed but no GIF library, a package you install will take
advantage of zlib, if the new package supports it, and won't require you
to install the gif libraries....If you install the gif library, next
update of the package, gif support in the package will be turned on....
dave wrote:
>Christopher Paulin wrote:
>
>
>
>>Peter Santoro is using Slackware as his distribution. He created tag
>>files to automate the package selection during the installs because he
>>was installing to more than one machine because he's converting his
>>household to all Linux from Windows. He is using an open source program
>>called SWareT, http://www.swaret.org/index.php. " swaret is a script to
>>help keep your Slackware System up-to-date." It works like apt-get in
>>Debian. He likes the fact that Slackware doesn't change the
>>configuration style from version to version. I am using an older version
>>of Slackware, 8.0 on my laptop. What I would like to do is to save all
>>my data, including configuration files, and then remove that version and
>>install a newer version. I would like to see if I can create a bootable
>>CD from files I've downloaded. In summary, I want to start fresh and
>>know about what I changed to configure my system. On my desktop, I'm now
>>using SuSE, which is what I'm using now. I've downloaded a DVD player,
>>which doesn't work as well as the Windows player that came with the DVD
>>rewriter, but it works. I tried installing the Java interpretter for
>>Mozilla on SuSE but was discouraged. So I'm starting to learn ways to
>>install software that doesn't come on the installation CDs. I haven't
>>upgraded anything I can remember.
>>
>>
>
>I installed Slackware 9.1 not too long ago. I started with a basic
>install, then installed Dropline Gnome (http://www.dropline.net/gnome/)
>on top of that. It was pretty slick. It even includes an applet to check
>for and install Gnome updates (but not Slackware). I also installed
>swaret, which worked similarly enough to apt on Debian. The one thing I
>did notice, the package selection didn't seem to compare to that of
>Debian. Now, I wouldn't call this comparison totally fair, since
>Debian's apt has been around for awhile, which accounts for the huge
>number of packages available (the swaret changelog states that an
>upcoming version will support installing packages from
>slackwarepackages.net). Anyway, my point is I was comparing it to what I
>currently use, and the difference in number of packages jumped right out
>at me.
>
>Chris, do you have a separate /home partition? I've done reinstalls
>where I've just grabbed all of /etc (for configs) and reinstalled, being
>careful to NOT touch the /home partition. Once installed, I just
>untarred my /etc over the new one and all was well.
>
>dave
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>CCOSS mailing list
>ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>CCOSS mailing list page: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3594
>CCOSS Web page: http://www.ccoss.org
>
>
>
_______________________________________________
CCOSS mailing list
ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
CCOSS mailing list page: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3594
CCOSS Web page: http://www.ccoss.org
Other related posts:
