[CS-FSLUG] Slackware

[Jerry Van Brimmer]

Hi Nate,
As you may know, I've been happily using Slackware for about two years 
now. The thing I like about Salckware is that *I* have total control 
over the system. While I don't claim to be an expert, I'll be glad to 
help you all I can to get your system up and running. One of the 
greatest sources for help with Salckware is at LinuxQuestions.org. They 
have a forum completely dedicated to Slackware. It's here: 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
There's also one dedicated to Slackware installation issues.

N. Thompson wrote:
> I've got a long weekend comming up and I'm probably going to take that time to 
> switch over to Slackware and get a usable system going, Mandrake and SUSE may 
> have nice shiny graphical configuration tools that require the world's most 
> powerful supercomputers all running in a cluster in order to run without 
> causing my music to skip but I don't have the control I want. I have to put 
> up with OpenOffice the way they like it, I have to put up with little control 
> over the packages I use because Mandrake doesn't want me to have X11 without 
> a pretty load bar during the boot process and because SUSE likes to be a 
> little more commercial then Mandrake and as such has a shortage of user 
> contributed RPMs and worse performance then Mandrake.
> 
> I'm going to need some help of course since this is going to take some 
> adjusting to, first off I'm going to be using KDE and I'm going to want all 
> the developer tools I may need to compile my own Qt apps and lots of nice KDE 
> goodies, I'm also going to need very little networking software aside from 
> maybe NFS and SMB, the KDE public file server applet and what I need for 
> DHCP.

I don't do any developing, but I think all you need will be 
preinstalled, If you do a complete install.

> 
> Basically I just want to hear any tips for the setup process and then I want 
> to know how to remove unwanted software, find software and updates and 
> install them easily. Then I want to know how to make my system secure by 
> setting up a firewall, preferably graphically and with significant ease and 
> from there I'll try to figure things out myself or go to the list for help.

The best tip I can give you is LinuxQuestion.org. Other than that, I'll 
do my best.

> 
> One more thing, the command to create users didn't work for me last time in 
> Slackawre, is it addusr?

The command to use is "adduser".

> 
> BTW. I have two network interfaces, eth0 is a 3com somethingarather and eth1 
> is an RTL-8139 compatible thingamajig, I want to use the RTL-8139 thingamajig 
> and have the 3com somethingarather unused since its not hooked up to anything 
> and usually greatly slows down the boot process while it tries to get an IP 
> address, if someone could tell me how this is done and perhaps even tell me 
> about some of the configuration tools I might expect to find in Slackware I'd 
> appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Nathan.

Good luck, and God bless!

Jerry

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