SLACKWARE 8.0.

[fateswarm]

Greetings from Brighton.UK!

I'm a newbie, well, almost a newbie. I would be considered a newbie for a hardcore linux user, a hardcore windows user from a winDos geek and.. anyway, enough from me.

The questions are:

1. Why rpm NEVER works on a fully-newly 8.0 slack install? I used ALL the packages that were on the cd. I get "Glibc2 needed" or something errors EVERY time I try to plug an rpm. tar.gz packs installs most of the times and tgz almost always(of course).

2. Is there a distro that is quite similar to the slack distro, in a way, I mean.. that you can get an rpm for red hat, for axample, and plug it in slack and work almost always?

3. About my first question, is it because I use 2.4.x kernels?

4. Is it really worth it for a desktop user as I am, or should I change to red hat or something?

5. Another REAL problem: What is my X "framebuffer address"? I got a video4Linux app and it needs it desperately. I'm quite sure of what this is, but, what is its address?

6. that's all. thanks

[Dark Ninja]

Hey "Somewhat newbie linux user to us hardcore linux users"! :D

Anyway...

1.) I don't think Slackware supports RPMS.
2.) Debian is nice - but - I don't know if that supports RPMS either.
3.) Nope.
4.) If you are JUST a desktop user, and you are looking for an alternative to Windows - Slackware may not be the way to go. It's really up to what you want - but just for desktop use, RedHat or Mandrake are very easy distros to get up and running.
5.) You're welcome.


Dark Ninja

P.S. Please note - I'm not entirely sure on those RPM things with Slackware. I know it didn't use to support it. You can download the program that WILL support RPMs, but, past history says no support in Slackware.