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Slackware Ditches GNOME Service
News Linux distribution Slackware has dropped the GNOME desktop environment from its version of the open source operating system, claiming that it is too much work to maintain it. The most recent release of Slackware, version 10.1, included three Linux...
[March 29, 2005, 16:30]
Fedora, Slackware, Debian... And Philosophy
Blog Comment I am a longtime user of Slackware Linux, and I have used both Mandriva and Fedora too. Mr. Watson, this *is* much ado about nothing, indeed. Iceweasel is, as adanw has pointed out, a rebranding of Firefox because (and look at this) Debian's support...
[July 12, 2008, 19:53]
Fedora, Slackware, Debian... And Philosophy
Blog Comment Thanks for the clear explanation. There are obviously good arguments on both sides of the Firefox/Iceweasel situation. I certainly have no qualms with something that is done for purposes of ongoing support.
[July 13, 2008, 12:09]
Fedora, Slackware, Debian... And Philosophy
Blog Comment Hi adamw :) To address the comments about easy to use distros regarding more advanced distros, when I see someone who wants to get started with linux I point them towards Mandriva. I tried Ubuntu but it only gave me two choices during the install...
[July 12, 2008, 21:40]
Fedora, Slackware, Debian... And Philosophy
Blog Comment iceweasel is just a re-branding of Firefox. No actual functional code changes are made; just what's needed to change the name from Firefox to Iceweasel. This isn't without precedent - it's been done in the past (by various distributions) when...
[July 11, 2008, 8:59]
Fedora, Slackware, Debian... And Philosophy
Blog Comment Thanks for the comment and explanation, Adam. As I said, perhaps it is much ado about nothing, and I certainly understand what you are saying. But it still makes me a bit uncomfortable. Maybe I will get used to it, or maybe I won't have to if I don...
[July 10, 2008, 20:35]
Fedora, Slackware, Debian... And Philosophy
Blog What I have been trying this week are at the other end of the scale - Fedora, Slackware and Debian Linux. I have been quiet about Linux this week because I have been busy trying several new versions. In the process, I have learned quite a bit more...
[July 11, 2008, 9:17]
Red Hat Recommends Windows For Consumers
Talkback I installed Slackware at home and my wife who never used a pc before can use it with no problems, also my 3 years old child can play with a lot of nice educational games. we can watch dvd and divx connecting my Slackware notebook to the television...
[November 5, 2003, 9:38]
Speaking Linux Released
News A speaking version of Linux, designed to give the visually impaired an experience of open source computing, has been launched by software firms Slackware and Speakup. The talking distribution called ZipSpeak, is developed from version 7.0 of Zip...
[March 27, 2000, 11:52]
Linux Desktop Hacks: Jazz Up Your Debian System Boot
White Papers OK, to be perfectly fair, so does Slackware, but currently there's no simple solution for bringing a graphical boot screen to Slackware. Here's how to add a graphical boot splash to the Debian distribution, the only popular Linux distribution that...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Run An Internet Search Engine From Your PC
News The creators of Juggernaut claim that it is capable of serving up a staggering 10 million unique Web pages running on just a Pentium II machine and Slackware Linux 4.0. It is now possible to run a heavy-duty search engine from the comfort of your...
[December 10, 1999, 10:49]
Vista Pricing Leaks Out
Talkback I'm a Slackware Linux user. I have a Windows 98 O.S.that I sometimes need. I hope I never need Vista. When you depend on a Microsoft O.S.you lose freedom, independence and control. You also must pay the "Microsoft Tax" each time a new O.S.is released.
[August 29, 2006, 18:41]
Intel Bets On Open Source Future
Talkback Whenever I install a new version of Slackware it's 2 CD's. Labor costs are a big deal for me too. For Windows there's the Windows OS CD, another for office, one for the printer, one for the scanner, one for quicken, one for the monitor, one for the...
[August 8, 2005, 22:49]
Red Hat Recommends Windows For Consumers
Talkback Initally, I have started with slackware back on the early 90's. I'm using Redhat for the last few years and it tooks me as much time I have spent on Microsoft to learn it. The comments made by several people about the commercialization interest of...
[November 6, 2003, 8:26]
Microsoft Takes Swipe At Linux Vendors' Legal Story
Talkback I for myself have been using Slackware on a 99% basis and can do whatever I can do in Windows. Microsoft is soooo desperate to draq Linux into the mud that forgets that it is actually advertising it with stupid comments and reports.
[November 5, 2004, 15:32]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment And yes I forgot about Slackware. The reason for eliminating Gentoo and Debian is that I want a system that can be built QUICKLY in 2 to 3 weeks. I have no doubt that Gentoo or Debian distros can eventually be used.
[May 28, 2007, 1:25]
Linux Newbies Get A Helping Hand
Talkback This one is text-based and not as "pretty" (I guess it is the "Slackware" of quizzes? While this is a useful tool, I don't think it is the first such "quiz". Another one can be found at the following site: http://eedok.voidofmind.com/linux/chooser...
[January 10, 2006, 2:12]
Linux As A Technology Cost-saving Strategy
Talkback One good example is Debian GNU/Linux; it's harder to set up, but is in fact more flexible than RedHat, SuSE, or the like - Slackware is the most powerful & flexible, but it's far harder. Being charge-free is probably a turnoff for big firms, but in...
[October 12, 2004, 13:14]
Linux Vendors Move To Standard Platform
News The advent of UnitedLinux reduces the number of major Linux distributions to five, the others being Red Hat Linux, Mandrake Linux, Debian and Slackware. If they can pull it off then I think it helps Linux as a whole to get down to five major...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
Ubuntu Linux Gains Another Accolade
News LinuxQuestions.org reported on Monday that of the 2500 users that voted in a site poll, 19.5 percent voted for Ubuntu as the Linux distribution of the year, narrowly beating Slackware, which received 19 percent of the votes.
[March 9, 2006, 12:40]
