slackware linux - just for a change,

[digital_spawn]

hi all,
i'm back after quite some time, just busy and got out from higher-college and into some serious job.

long before i was stuck on with linux-mandrake , i jumped on from one distribution to another : though i never had a stable machine , i learned a lot. , but then i stuck to mandrake 7.0 to 8.0 till date,

just for a change i now want to try out slackware, so before i make the jump , i have a few questions :

1) is slack still using those non gui based installation,

2) does the new version give problem with bigger hard-disks while sharing with windows , (new versions of redhat still has that problem , mandrake does not !)

3) which is the latest version ?


lots of thanx in advance,
and rgds

:cool:

[bdg1983]

1. Yes .. the installation is the same old
2. No, not to my experience. I have 120 gb harddisk space with about 70 on fat partitions which slackware reads just fine.
3. Slackware 8.0 is the current one.

Slack rules, just switched to it myself !!
:cool:

[Black_Xmas]

I think of all the distributions I've tried (I'm still one helluva noobie, I just install :/ ) I've found that slackware is the cleanest. I wouldn't worry about Slack's install process, it's painless. And yuppers, it's graphical. Well, no less graphical than Debian :D but not M$-like in following the footsteps of SuSe etc.

I just finished a Debian install, and while I have to say that apt and dselect are a godsend, it's a rather messy distro. Slack has it's own package manager.

Although, I used the advanced install (as a newb, that's prolly not wise) and that's probably what caused it to be a little more extra messy.

I only have the main ISO and I can't seem to get netscape installed, and mozilla is a joke. Atleast I've had the chance to get used to Lynx :D

Slack 8.0 = Newest version.