Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 4th Dec 2003 04:42 UTC
My husband hooked me up on Slackware almost three months ago (he used to run Slackware in the '90s). While I use a large range of OSes on a daily basis, when I am under Linux I now prefer to use Slackware. This is my mini-article with thoughts on Slackware 9.1 after using it for three months on and off. Ten screenshots are included.
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Hi!
I've tried slack after eugenia's review in sept. I liked the simplicity too, but not the package managament. So i tried arch linux, which is very much like slack (a fork of that afaik) and adds a bsd like package management system to it (not only full dependency handling, but very easy custom package making), and it's i686. I use it for a month or so, and quite satisfied w/ it. Give it a try if u like the idea of slackware but not the package management. I'm not sure how it was under slack, but eg here the init system is so simle, nothing rcX.d, but i there's a file /etc/rc.conf with the line:
DAEMONS=(!pcmcia network crond inetd httpd mysqld sshd proftpd)
And that's it, it's used at both boot and shutdown to handle daemons. Pretty simple and clear i think, i never liked the SystemV style init.
bye, hirisov