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top down or bottom up?
by Daisan on Sun 25th May 2003 13:12 UTC

someone once said linux is easier to learn from the bottom up, than top down. After using first Mandrake(8 and 9) and than redhat with its horribly broken kde. A friend recommended Slackware. I had read and heard all the horror stories. But downloaded and burned the iso. A quick 25 minute install and blam its up. Type in gdm after loging in as root and blam.. into my desktop. yes.. its not Windows insta-click friendly. I did have to edit the config file to get my mouse working(imps2) and i will say that getting printing to run properly was a bear. But, i was looking to be a bit geeky and wanted to get away from the commercial distros. The 2 days of wasted time with gentoo.. only left me convinced that I love Slack. Dropline gnome aint too shabby either. Btw.. this wasnt intended as a flame.. diff flavors for diff peeps.