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Too late to... Fork...please!Too late to... Fork...please!Posted Mar 19, 2006 4:11 UTC (Sun) by Arker (guest, #14205)In reply to: Too late to... Fork...please! by hingo Parent article: Fired, simply fired.
I'd still recommend giving slackware a try. It's not for everyone, but I think the reputation for being hard is undeserved. The init system is much easier to understand, the text file configuration in general is a world easier than in other distros, since they're all commented nicely and documented. If you can read the fine and short install and configure manuals and understand them, it's no sweat. You really only need to mess with this once, on initial setup, and it's quite straightforward. It ships with a very clean version of KDE, and if you work in the GUI I don't think you'd really need to twiddle anything not accessible from there. Once it's running you even have 'apt' style tools to install and update software these days. In my experience it tends to run faster and feel 'cleaner' than other distros, as well as being easier to understand so you can fix it if anything goes wrong or needs tweaking. Anyhow... my advice would be to give it a chance, it just might surprise you.
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Too late to... Fork...please! Posted Mar 19, 2006 9:48 UTC (Sun) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] As I said, for me personally, it's not a question of "giving it a try". I do know how to setup a Linux system configuring text files and I just prefer a good GUI tool. That being said, I do admit many of the GUI tools I've used, including many versions of the mdk software installer 8.x-9.x, were so idiotic or just uggy that they drove me to use command line tools and text files :-) So I understand why many people end up prefering Slackware or something similar. But I still think a good Linux desktop will need GUI config tools, with as much automation as possible, and I'm in search for that desktop.
Too late to... Fork...please! Posted Mar 20, 2006 11:53 UTC (Mon) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link] Have you given Ark Linux a shot ?http://www.arklinux.org/
Too late to... Fork...please! Posted Mar 20, 2006 14:35 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] Have you given Ark Linux a shot ?I haven't, but that does look intriguing. Apparently still a "minor distro", but has a well-known Linux personality behind it. Extra karma (from my viewpoint) of being European.
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