Comment Re:My 2 chips (Score 1) 573
You must be a few years out of date, my friend. I've found Slack 8 to be a very full-featured, very sleek distro, with absolutely nothing lacking, and some nice extras. I wasn't paying particular attention to the install process, and I've installed too many distros to give a 'newbie' viewpoint on it, but I remember it being completely painless.
Absolutely loved being able to install from an ISO image on the Windows partition -- I'm guessing this is possible with any distro, but Slackware actually gave instructions about it. The partition editor was actually reasonable, I think I've seen that one in one of the BSDs as well. Not newbie-friendly, but relatively sane. Zero hardware problems, even with X and PCMCIA, which is very impressive when running on a relatively new laptop (Compaq Presario 1830).
In summary: very sweet, and their primary distro is no longer stuck in the 'dark ages' of requiring you to set up each little bit the same way each time. If it's still too feature-heavy for you, they still offer something called 'ZipSlack'.
Don't count Slackware out, it's in there with the big boys now.
Absolutely loved being able to install from an ISO image on the Windows partition -- I'm guessing this is possible with any distro, but Slackware actually gave instructions about it. The partition editor was actually reasonable, I think I've seen that one in one of the BSDs as well. Not newbie-friendly, but relatively sane. Zero hardware problems, even with X and PCMCIA, which is very impressive when running on a relatively new laptop (Compaq Presario 1830).
In summary: very sweet, and their primary distro is no longer stuck in the 'dark ages' of requiring you to set up each little bit the same way each time. If it's still too feature-heavy for you, they still offer something called 'ZipSlack'.
Don't count Slackware out, it's in there with the big boys now.
