[CS-FSLUG] Slackware

[Eduardo Sanchez]

Nathan: Perhaps my Stealth Desktop series might be useful to you. Check 
them out at OfB.biz :)

Blessings,


Eduardo

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 19:24, 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> One more thing, the command to create users didn't work for me last 
time in 
> Slackawre, is it addusr?
> 
> 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.
> 
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-- 
Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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