Patrick Volkerding interview (slackware)

this is a really good interview, about half way through i decided to download slackware and use it without a PM. i'm going to install it over zenwalk i've got a qemu image of SLS Linux too which i'm going to install too

http://www.tllts.org/dl.php?episode=164

 

Hello,
I recently did an install of Slackware 11. A tutorial is being baked as we speak.
Mrk

 

sounds good. i suppose zenwalk uses the slackware installer, so i hope i have no problems. i had a look at the installation instructions here - http://www.slackware.com/install/ and it just put me off, so i'm not going to follow instructions unless i get stuck!

if something looks too complicated i won't do it, i generally prefer to just install things without knowing lol

i haven't installed ubuntu, except in vmware, because after looking at what i have to do to get it installed on my hardware i just don't want to do it -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto

i just tried SLS linux which slackware is based. it's the version from 1993 look at the date in this screenshot

 

Hello,
Slack is more difficult than other linuxes. It's very old fashioned and takes a bit more time to configure. Plus it uses BSD style scripts, which are different from what you may be used to. Things are less intuitive.
But it's ok - fun and cool like all linuxes - you'll see the guide soon.
Mrk

 

thanks, i've used all those startup scripts and all the other manual stuff when i setup arch (rc.d i think is the directory) and to a less extent zenwalk (zenwalk is just a slackware fork with a package manager with afew programs), but arch is all text based, parts of the install go like this -
and now you need to setup your network, click OK to continue
so you click OK, and a blank text file opens lol

then when the install has finished you think 'oh yeah' and you get a prompt with no DE, and i had to manually configure xorg because when i did install a desktop it wouldn't start then, then same day i had arch all setup perfectly i decided to do a server install of dapper and formatted arch by mistake

but, that's what i mean about seeing how difficult things are before you do them - i'd never have installed arch at that point if i'd had a clue

i just remembered SLS's got a gui too lol

qemu has a memory leak though so i can't use the desktop everything hangs.