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Well, I couldn't get Suse to install with the 64 bit version either. I checked all the discs and even listened to Chess' podcasts on installing. I may have been doing something else wrong.

Anyway, I did pick up on the Gparted live cd from listening to the podcasts, that is definitely cool and works great.

So what did I do with my new free partition on my Ubuntu box? Slack..it never fails. Fast, dependable and downright elegant (and now I've got a chance to see how it runs on something with some ass behind it).

johnnywtllts wrote: So what did I do with my new free partition on my Ubuntu box? Slack..it never fails. Fast, dependable and downright elegant (and now I've got a chance to see how it runs on something with some ass behind it).

I didn't think they had a 64 bit version of Slackware. I guess it's good that it works.

Personally I'm running all 32 bit here.

I liked Slackware when I was using it. Well, in fact, I'm still using it.. I was given an old PII Toshiba laptop with a mere 4 GB hard drive that has no more use at the office where I work. So I'm turning it into a web server. Just installed Slackware on it last night and got Apache running on it. Works just fine.

The only thing is, since starting up a LUG at the office, I've been having to take a close look at the distributions I suggest for people to try out. I have to be careful, as these people are novices in the world of computers in every sense of the word. They may work with computers every day, they still know hardly anything about them.

Suggesting Slackware to them to use on their home PCs just isn't going to make any of them Linux converts. But it's not because of a lack of performace or stability or anything technical like that. Slackware just isn't user friendly enough for them, and I don't feel like going over to a dozen homes to do the installs myself.

I like Slackware for certain circumstances... just as I like Mandriva for others.

The LUG like the idea of hosting an Install-fest come the fall. When that time comes, Mandriva and Slackware (well Vector perhaps) will be the two distros I'll be brining with me in my CD case.

Gomer_X said

I didn't think they had a 64 bit version of Slackware. I guess it's good that it works

I think there's a 64 bit version someone has made up. I'm just running regular Slack. So far it's working great. The ass I was talking about was more just the fact that the processor is an AMD +3000. (I got it second hand, so the 64 bit aspect was unintentional).

Judland said:

Suggesting Slackware to them to use on their home PCs just isn't going to make any of them Linux converts. But it's not because of a lack of performace or stability or anything technical like that. Slackware just isn't user friendly enough for them, and I don't feel like going over to a dozen homes to do the installs myself.

I know what you mean, but I've thought about that lately....Maybe I've just done it so many times now, but the Slack install seems pretty straightforward (just picking the default stuff). Once installed you'd need at least two command line ops to get someone surfing the internet and using multimedia -ifconfig and alsamixer (unless I'm forgetting something).

I mean without Easy Ubuntu or Automatix, even Ubuntu would be kind of a pain in the butt to get that far.

Update:
I was thinking about having some fun this weekend, and what's more fun than trying out a new distro?. As I keep hearing Suse mentioned in the broader Tech world, and as I guess I'm still not satisfied with my previous attempt at installing Suse, I figured I'd give it a quick search.

Found this thread that appears to be similar issues that I had when trying to install Suse.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... p?t=464232

Just a side note. Skimming this (LQ) forum, there seems to be an inordinate amount of issues with this distro, though I know Pat, Chess, Jsusanka and others here have installed it and are happy.

I thought there might be some easily Googled answers, but at first glance it appears to be suggestions about swapping motherboards and such.

I'll post back if I ever get around to giving it another try.

Oh no! He said the magic word! *Waits for Tsuroerus to respond to thread*

Oh no! He said the magic word! *Waits for Tsuroerus to respond to thread*

I don't know, It's pretty late by now in Germany.

I did install it on an extra computer and worked with it some for the purposes of the Linux Reality podcast, but I have not used it very much. Other than the package manager problems, it seemed to work fine. It's not my day-to-day distro, though, so maybe there are issues that crop up after continued use.

Okay, cool Chess.

I downloaded Fedora Core to try out on my test partition. So far so good (I've made it past the first CD anyway).

And besides, it's from RTP!, NC!, I-40!, straight outta the 910!, North Kakalaky!, Word to Linus' mother!, I'm out!

(Translation for non-gangstas: "this distro hails from Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Interstate 40, Area Code 910, again...North Carolina, I give you my word on Linus Torvalds -his mother even -whom I'm sure he loves, I'll talk to you later")