jlc Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 Says it all! :slack: Fedora, Suse, Gentoo & Debian <stuff> is ok too. Why Slack? Cause it is what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 I knew that was coming ;) What took ya so long? Waiting for the rt time to mv in for the kill, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 I knew that was coming ;) What took ya so long? Waiting for the rt time to mv in for the kill, eh? :lol: Didn't see the thread! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 cyber, there are those who might read this thread, and not understand what "simplicity" you are talking about. They might not even understand what an rpm vs source tarball distro is! So, could you explicitly say why you like slackware???? B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pastored Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 VECTOR Linux (http://www.vectorlinux.com) 1) It's SIMPLE to set up 2) it's FAST 3) it's Slackware, so there is a lot of documentation for it available 4) it's FAST 5) it has a great community - very friendly, very helpful 6) it's FAST 7) designed to run well on older hardware so I don't *NEED* to have the fastest and best 8) it's FAST and hmm.... ...did I mention that it's FAST? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 (edited) ...did I mention that it's FAST? Hmm... I don't think so. Maybe you should edit your post and explicitly mention it... :unsure: BTW I installed it too once, and it *IS* pretty cool... very nice for older PC's. Although I found the menus too crowded. Edited February 20, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 (edited) re: the nforce motherboard the new 2.6 kernel has the reverse engineered driver for eth0, a driver for nvidia AGPgart plus sound is supported as it always was (i think). edit: oh yeah, my experiences it all works fine in 2.6.3 if that helps. networking, zero problems, sound is beautiful. graphics, now thats another story, but possibly caused by my radeon 9700pro. I have got it working though, been playing ut2k4 and enemy territory. If i can get it working with a 9700pro (really evil card for linux) then most things should be possible. Edited February 20, 2004 by fissy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 re: the nforce motherboard the new 2.6 kernel has the reverse engineered driver for eth0, a driver for nvidia AGPgart plus sound is supported as it always was (i think). Somehow, that sounds really reassuring (I've got an nforce chipset too...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 For fun I've been fooling around with a little OS called menuet. It's an assembler based OS and under the GPL. The thing fits on one floppy and boots into a gui. It's pretty primitive but a lot of fun. You can download here: http://www.menuetos.org/download.htm and there's a forum here: http://board.flatassembler.net/viewforum.p...e722d7d6e217ce3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 cyber, there are those who might read this thread, and not understand what "simplicity" you are talking about. They might not even understand what an rpm vs source tarball distro is! So, could you explicitly say why you like slackware???? B) It's FAST, Stable, upgrades are easy, compiling software is easy. Package handling is easy. Good documentation in config files. No rpm problems ;-) I do like Fedora too, nice setup, backed by a strong Linux Company that gives back a lot to the community. Just hopeing between yum or apt, version updates will be easy??? We will see, we will see. Rpm version updates normally look like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 Oh, another thing on Fedora/RedHat people don't talk much about is the gui-tools. Mandrake & Suse pretty much have everyone beat on being able to make Linux easier to manipulate from gui-tools. BUT, what RH has for those "redhat-config-<tab>" tools is simple to understand, very clean and easy interface to use. To me, SuSE and MDK have overloaded there tools enough to sometimes confuse a seasoned linux veteran to wonder why there is so much bloat, garbage tied into them. They are pretty and work (most of the time) but I guess I just like things a little more simple to read through. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 As far as I can tell, only PCLinuxOS have the built in support for nforce motherboards. I have tried on my desktop and the built in network card is detected and running. Sound is also supported from alsa and oss so no problem there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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