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A look at Slackware 10.0

Posted Jul 11, 2004 11:13 UTC (Sun) by nurhussein (guest, #16226)
Parent article: A look at Slackware 10.0

Though the lack of a graphical installer may intimidate new users, the text-based menu installer still serves well and is quite simple to use if one will only take the time to read the text.

I am rather curious as to *why* a text-based menu installer looks intimidating. Is there something psychologically disturbing about textmode? Because the menu is clearly menu-driven just like any other menu, in graphics mode or otherwise. I just don't get this stigma over textmode.

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Posted Jul 12, 2004 22:41 UTC (Mon) by alisonken1 (guest, #11742) [Link]

Think "Gee, it doesn't have all of these cute bells/whistles/<your favorite extra eye candy here> that all of the other people have - it must be ANCIENT and NOT CONTEMPORARY ENOUGH FOR ME."

A look at Slackware 10.0

Posted Aug 23, 2004 1:35 UTC (Mon) by wrhamblen (guest, #24192) [Link]

The only thing slightly intimidating about installing Slackware is that you have to partition your hard drive using either fdisk or cfdisk. There is not a "disk druid" or "disk drax" to do the partitioning for you. Apart from that it is pretty easy. I've used Slackware since release 1.2 and have been thoroughly imprinted on it, like a baby duck seeing its mama when it comes out of the egg.