1 Apr
2003
1 Apr
'03
6:09 a.m.
One of the major benefits of Slackware is that it doesn't use GUI
configuration tools. In distros that do have these, they work
fine 80% of the time, but taking care of the remaining 20% is a
royal pain.
Another major benefit is that it's very clean - it's quite possible to
have an almost complete understanding of the layout of a Slackware
system, something that, for me anyways, is impossible on other distros
that swamp everything with hundreds of vendor-specific configuration
files.
If you like learning new stuff and if you can get into the habit of
RTFM-ing and using Google, Slackware comes highly recommended.
Just be aware that it will take a while before you've set it up as an
audio workstation - it doesn't even enable sound out of the box!
However, it's definitely doable, and if you succeed, you'll have a
system that's set up just the way you want it, with no extra cruft
lying around.
take care,
Matthijs de Jonge
http://devdsp.net - news and resources for computer musicians
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:10:59AM +0200, Moeflon wrote:
I think I'm ready to move away from MDK...
Been messing around the last couple of days with MDK 9.1(rc3) Or I did
something wrong, or urpmi has some probs, anyhow, more than 3/4 of the
sound rpms I tried to install from the 9.1 plf sources seem to be
corrupted (as I may believe what urpmi tells me)
=> Does anybody knows this comes? Is it normal?
I 'm getting headaches from the rpm-system. I'd like to move over to
Slackware.
=> Does anybody have any idea how difficult/easy it is to build a
sound-workstation on slack? any links?
Been working on linux for a bit over a year now. Really nice OS.
Wonderful to see how things are getting better all the time!!
Karel (alias Moeflon)