From: "Glenn Ervin at home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Debian or slackware?
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:15:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005401c3ac5c$d3c86440$6d00a8c0@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031116143029.GC31860@gmx.net>
Alex,
is there another site to download slackware?
The link you provided seems to either be a bad link, or the site is down at
the time.
Glenn.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: "Jes and guide dog Harley" <jesman598@triad.rr.com>; "Speakup is a
screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: Debian or slackware?
Hi.
I would go with slackware. it was my first distro and I still use it.
I found it's install easier since the latest version comes with
speakup stock and this is not the case with debian.
one more advantage is slackware comes on only 2 cd's (actually 4 but
that last two are source code). so all you need is on those first 2
disks. if you don't want gnome or kde you only need the first cd but
the second one is also a really cool rescue disk so it's worth
downloading.
you can get the iso images from
ftp://ftp.eunet.be/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso
On
Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:53:30AM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote:
> Folks, I have a few questions about my first installation of Linux. I'm
wondering since I am a total newby, if I should go with
> debian woodie/potato first, or try slackware 9.1 for a trial run? I don't
need a lot of packages right now, I want a lot but don't
> need a lot for an introduction to Linux, and I figure that if I'm going to
get really introduced to it the less packages, the
> better. This way, I can be more focused on the structure of the operating
system itself, rather than on what packages do what and
> which ones I have installed, etc. My final question is, I know that to
install Debian's packages you must have an iso image of the
> cd unless you want to do a network install (which I'm not planning on.)
but what about slackware? If I have to have an iso image,
> where do I get the cd images?
> Thanks a lot for any help.
> Jes
>
>
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