I finally figured out SLAX!

[blackbelt_jones]

Yeah, I know, it's really incredibly simple, but there are no decent directions, at least that anyone has left in plain sight. I may try to remedy that, bur right now it's about 1:30 AM. BBL.

[loopback48]

Well good for you. I dipped my toe in the Slackware water several years ago. The water was too damn cold for me. I felt it was much ado about nothing. By that I mean, too much work for so little in return.

I'm a Debian man myself. I guess some feel the same about it.

Now if you could pass along some of these insights you've found, it just might give me the push to give it another shot.

Please continue.

[blackbelt_jones]

Well good for you. I dipped my toe in the Slackware water several years ago. The water was too damn cold for me. I felt it was much ado about nothing. By that I mean, too much work for so little in return.

I'm a Debian man myself. I guess some feel the same about it.

Now if you could pass along some of these insights you've found, it just might give me the push to give it another shot.

Please continue.

Well, I'm not talking about Slackware, I'm talking about SLAX, one of the most unique distros ever. Slax provides a barebones live CD (or a bootable pendrive image) and provides software packages called "modules" that you can add to the CD either before burning or while the CD is running. Let's see if there's a nice wikipedia page that I can link to:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slax

The "build slax" page is a simple (once you get how it works) point-and-click interface for adding modules to the CD. You add all the packages you want, and then you click the "download" button for the the iso of a custom live CD. You can also use the same page to download and add modules to a running slax system via the web. There are other possibilities.

As far as Slackware is concerned, I'm also a huge fan of Debian - and debian based distros. I love the easy access to all that software, and I love apt-get, but in recent years I've learned that I always like keeping a Slackware machine around because slackware machines are great for serious stuff, for writing and getting work done. I don't know what it is about Slackware, it's got a no nonsense vibe,

If you want to try an easier version of Slackware, I reccomend Vector Linux, particularly the KDE-based. SOHO (small office and home) build. Vector comes with a nice package manager called slapt-get all set up. Right on the desktop, and my, but it's fast!

[loopback48]

I guess I should have read your post a little more carefully.

[psych-major]

Another "easy" Slackware distro is Zenwalk Linux.

I Like it a LOT better then Vector, and the install is easier.

[psych-major]

As for Slax Documentation:
http://www.slax.org/documentation.php

There's not much to it, really.

[loopback48]

Another "easy" Slackware distro is Zenwalk Linux.

I Like it a LOT better then Vector, and the install is easier.

It's been a few versions ago since I tried Zen. Now this is the way Slackware should be done.

[psych-major]

Did you like the package manager?