[CS-FSLUG] Slackware

[N. Thompson]

On October 21, 2004 04:27 pm, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
> 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.

Thats what I'm looking for too, total control over my system.

[snip]
> > 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".

I appreciate the correction there, the first time I tried Slackware I had to 
wait until I had KDE running in order to add a user because I couldn't 
remember the proper command and as you can tell still have trouble 
remembering :-) .

> > 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

Thanks, I appreciate all the replies, Eduardo might also find it interesting 
to know that when I was considering Slackware again it was one of his reviews 
of it on OfB.biz that got me to make the decision.

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