Never used Slackware but interested

Hi
I have a 1GHz Dell laptop that's currently running Debian and acting as a print server / backup computer in case something goes wrong with Gentoo. I'm fairly experienced with Linux, like challenges, and have always been interested in Slackware.

So, would Slackware be a good distro for a print server, file server, and DHCP/firewall? Also, the originial hard drive died so I only have an 8G in there now. Would that be enough space?

Any insight would be appreciated.

This will tell you the requirements and is very helpful its from the Slackware site

http://www.slackware.com/book/index....urce=x209.html

Also i suggest Slackware 10.1 which can be downloaded on the mirrors from this link

http://www.slackware.com/getslack/

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Originally Posted by groovygroundhog

Hi
I have a 1GHz Dell laptop that's currently running Debian and acting as a print server / backup computer in case something goes wrong with Gentoo. I'm fairly experienced with Linux, like challenges, and have always been interested in Slackware.

So, would Slackware be a good distro for a print server, file server, and DHCP/firewall? Also, the originial hard drive died so I only have an 8G in there now. Would that be enough space?

Any insight would be appreciated.

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I think would be fine. I find that slack has less "bloat" than debian, so it would be fine on an 8G drive.

Enjoy :D

Be forewarned, though...Slack uses a different style of init scripts than most *nix distros and that takes a bit of getting used to at first.

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Originally Posted by Flatline

Be forewarned, though...Slack uses a different style of init scripts than most *nix distros and that takes a bit of getting used to at first.

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true. I feel that slackware has it right though. That is my biggest dislike of debian, and many other distro. I like my /etc/rc.d :roll:

In some ways I think the Slackware init scripts are very nifty, but I "grew up" in the rest of the linux world, so it's always a bit disorienting when I first go back to Slack.

Is there anything in slack analogous to emerge or apt-get? If so, does it compile source or download binaries?

slackware does have a version of apt-get, slapt-get I think; however, the default package tool is pkgtool, you dl the package from a repository yourself and installpkg whatever. Not to bad really, easier to compile yourself I've found though.

as genesus said there are several, slapt-get, swaret, etc.... however, there is no dependency checking...... I too find it eaiser just to compile yourself

Ok, so there's no native apt-get type program for Slack? I'm fine with compiling myself but I just wanted to check. Personally I don't like apt. Rather, I think Gentoo meets you in the middle with emerge since you control all the compile options. Either way, I guess you can't use Linux without compiling yourself. Plus, where'd the fun be otherwise?