Hi gui10,

you are from Singapore? um...can i contact you? U seem to be very experience in Linux. I have alot to pickup and i am working in Singapore too. I mean if you think it is convenience....

hi shoot2kill,

wah i am not say very good lah... most of what i learnt i pick up from here and many trial and error sessions and by reading lots of stuff . i'm not expert(yet!) . a lot of people on this forum very good at linux. u can e-mail me at my email.

Personal opinion here:

Slackware is (IMO) definitely easier to install thant Debian.

I've got Slack 8 up and running with KDE in about an hour, and that was with a knackered CD as well (just happened to have the ISO on a DVD).

I've not got X to work on Debian yet. Oh, sorry, I tried Progeny and got Gnome fine - but I don't think that counts.

Nothing to say about your opinion but...

Don't you know that both slack and debian use the same basic config tools like xf86config or XF86Setup? In addition with debian you can do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-your_x_server, so how can you say you can't get x working?

el_felipe

It just seemed easier. To be honest, I didn't really try with Debian, since I had one distro that worked fine (Mandy), one distro that I could 'play' with (Slack) I didn't see the need to fiddle with a third (Debian) too much. I didn't like the whole dselect thing. Slack's pkgtool worked, looked and flowed easier. Again, it's just my opinion - I'm sure that when I've played with Debs a bit more, I'll be quite happy with that too.

i feel the same as Thymox. but for me, i know it's always coz of my ignorance, not the fault of the distro.

Hey, I am still ignorant of many things Linux (which is why I still prefer to use Mandy). I don't mean to insult, but when there are problems, it is very rarely the fault of the distro, it is the fault of the user. I was once given a good piece of advice:
There are only two types of problem - Those that you can solve, and those that you cannot solve yet.

You should never put yourself down because of your lack of familiarity or knowledge of new things. It will come, you just need to persevere.

Agreed!
Yup thanks for the encouragement, appreciate it.
i would love to get a deb box up and running despite what i said about slack earlier it's just been difficult and i don't know anyone in my locality who uses deb to help me... but i'll try again when i get the time

Well i have finally installed Slackware on my computer, but i didnt install KDE and KDE apps, just gnome & gnome apps, do i have to reinstall everything to use KDE ?

you can install whatever your heart desires without reinstalling the whole distro..

You can mount the install CD and install X & KDE from there. Use pkgtool - it's good.

Hey,
It's really amusing to see all of you flaming about silly a thread...
I think there is no answer for the question, which is the best Linux Distrubtion!

BTW : what the hell are you talking about BSD, it is based on the POSIX standart, like linux is trying to do it also, but I'ts still UNIX and not LINUX!!!

I never used Slackware, so I can't say if it is good or not (but after long years of Development it should be quiet good)...
When I started to use Linux (3 years ago) I started with SUSE/REDHAT and at this times I loved the easy YaST(2) / Linuxconf...
Since one year (or so) I'm using Debian (for my local Internetgateway/Router, my Fileserver and finally as alternative Desktop(In my Opinion Win2k is still the best OS to download music, using ICQ and so on)...
I really love Debian because you can easily get nearly every tool/libary with apt, I don't know a more easy way to update my system then simply running apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade!

I really wanna know, what are the Slackware advantages, because I don't know this Distrubtion....



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PS: Sorry for my bad english ;o))

I am a Debian user, and I agree with those of you who don't like dselect. I rarely have to use anything other than apt-get install !$@# and apt-get upgrade. But for those of you who have a slow connection I would recommend this: drop the dselect crap, there are better options out there now. Deity looks kinda similar to dselect, but is much easier and works better. And for those kde users out there I HIGHLY recommend kpackage. It is a truly great package manager gui.


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i thought once you people might realize that arguing over which distro is better is pointless, since different distro's work better for different people. then i stopped smoking crack.

Why?

1. Latest release are always available
2. No headache of package dependencies, just get the package from linuxpackages .net and you go...

debian is way behind in time. Debian based distros like Linspire and ubuntu are slower than slackware.

ummm, you do realize this thread is 3 years old?