Emon Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Excellent choice indeed .. and take a look at my distcc HOWTO when you are going to compile large packages such as KDE or gnome. https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...0entry1527832 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Just because you can't connect to the net in Slackware 9.1 doesn't mean you should discourage others from using it. I think 9.1 is great, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to use a decent distro. That was Mandrake 9.1, for your information. Slackware 9.1 is not good with boot disks, LILO, and mounting certain drives (NTFS) as I found, but if it works for you, I won't argue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Stage3+GRP comes with the stage3 stuff, plus extra binary packages such as OpenOffice, X, GNOME, and KDE. Yes, but be aware that the GRP packages are often out-of-date and it has been my experience that some just don't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sui'ke Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 are you dissing slack 9.1 ? it runs fine on my pc... compiled 2.6.0 kernel just fine .. :D im also running slackware 7 on an older pc... but i updated it so much it has all the same software. i should install 9.1 on that one aswell... after all those years :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 (edited) I have a question. I have no idea what some guys are talking about when they say I'm gonna need to compile. It's not the same as popping in a bootable cd and install?? Well compilling is when you take the source code and turn it in to machine code. Most of the time in linux is c, although c++ is often used by graphical applications. The advantages, you can optimize it for your cpu, your size or stability requirements, your whatever. type "man gcc" to get a list of probably hundreds. You can also only inlucde libraries and support that YOU want and need. USE flags make that easy. It helps to know a little about what everything does though but that will come with time. For anything under 1 MB bzipped, which many many are, it only takes a few seconds. While you are Compiling a program you can continue to use the current version even as it installs. Restart the program to load the newest version. I also suggest running the prelinker to increase loading time esp if you are gonna use a lot of kde or gnome apps. And when Mr. Static Void says out of date, he means not bleeding edge, Most things in gentoo are up to date within hours, and sometimes there are alpha ebuilds and cvs ebuilds which you can download as well. Edited January 2, 2004 by Goalie_CA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonobozoot Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 I'm gonna need to compile. It's not the same as popping in a bootable cd and install. If you dont want to install Linux on your system, go for the bootable. this works for me becoz i cant get Linux to install on my system(not enough space to partition) and I run Dynebolic Linux off the cd.. Lately I have grown fond of slackware-live. it seems good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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