Thinking About Trying Slackware. Few questions though...

[waltaja]

Currently i'm running Fedora Core 4. only 2 months into the whole GNU/Linux scene at the moment but very interested in learning Slackware.

my main question is this (i can fudge my way through the rest i think )

in FC4 when i first installed and set up Yum, i'd just type:

yum update

and it would update every package on my system including the kernel.

in the Slackware world, is there anything like this? my guess would be no, which i don't mind so much, because i'd like to learn GNU/Linux in sort of a "working man's" enviroment, just a little curious if Slackware offered anything like this.

thanks for any help you guys can give me. It's much appreciated

[Vergil83]

there is
http://www.swaret.org/
which will update all the packages (except the kernel). If you use a premade slackware linux kernel, it is easy (slack uses 2.4, but you can update to 2.6 very easily).

[waltaja]

thank you. i am currently downloading the iso's from the slackware site. when i do go to update the kernel, i would just need to download it, turn it into a slackware package and install with installpkg yadda yadda.tgz ?

the slackware world is a whole new beast for me.

thank you for your response. much appreciated

[Vergil83]

just follow these instructions
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../README.initrd
works great

[waltaja]

will do. thanks for the link

[googled first]

You might also want to look at Slapt-get. Swaret and Slap-get are much the same thing. There are GUI's available for both of them (or at least there is for kde)

[oz]

...at this point, you might want to wait to download slackware, as it's my understanding that verion 10.2 will be released in another week, or two.