Linux distributions?

[vinnywright]

Well I just talked myself into trying the newest Slackware agin .
I dont use the Backtrack install that mutch so it's out and slackware is going in .
I DL'ed it last night and just took the .iso and did a "isohybrid *.iso" then a "dd if=slackware64-14.0-install-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdb" to make a bootable USB out of it.
now on to the adventure

VINNY

[dibl]

I DL'ed it last night and just took the .iso and did a "isohybrid *.iso" then a "dd if=slackware64-14.0-install-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdb" to make a bootable USB out of it.

I have been using unetbootin of late, to make bootable USB sticks. The cool thing about it is, you can partition a larger stick and save the first partition for FAT 32 (data), and install your ISO on a smallish second partition (with the boot flag set), and it is still bootable. I haven't tried it with slackware, however, but it works with several distros including Parted Magic.

[jpenguin]

dose no one remember slackware .

VINNY

Frugalware is also an Interesting distro, kinda of a slack-arch combo

[vinnywright]

I have been using unetbootin of late, to make bootable USB sticks. The cool thing about it is, you can partition a larger stick and save the first partition for FAT 32 (data), and install your ISO on a smallish second partition (with the boot flag set), and it is still bootable. I haven't tried it with slackware, however, but it works with several distros including Parted Magic.

yes I forgot about that (unetbootin) , I got her installed ,,,,,and it's running ok so far, just got done, but wireless dose not want to work , still checking in to why , the card is up and can scan for networks and will see mine but the KDE networkmanager dose not seem to have wireless support , thars a program called wpa-gui but dose not see the wireless device ,,,,,,,,,,,LOL well thats slackware for ya,,,,,,, configuring we will go configuring we will go ,,,,Hi Ho a hackeo configuring we will go ,,,,,

VINNY

[vinnywright]

OK my bad ,,,,forgot to run netconfig during the install , just reran it and set it for networkmanager (KDE) and all is well , posting from the Slackware64-14 install now .......I am finding a lot of gtk apps in hear ,,, thunar , pidgin , gftp and more ......it's using KDE-4.8.5 and of course no package manager so to speek you find a tgz and do a installpkg foo.tgz and hope you have all the dependency's

VINNY

[james147]

Frugalware is also an Interesting distro, kinda of a slack-arch combo

Isn't arch also a `slack-arch combo`? Considering slackware inspired Arch as well

[vinnywright]

LOL I am feeling so geeky right now ,,,,,, downloading slackbuilds and source code .tar.gz's and compiling/creating .tgz's then installing them ,,,,,,LOL

it is fun but it sure makes you love the huge ubuntu package archives all that much more , spent the last 1/2 hour getting and installing libdvdcss,lame,x264 and ffmpeg ,,,, hahahahaha

VINNY

[whatthefunk]

LOL I am feeling so geeky right now ,,,,,, downloading slackbuilds and source code .tar.gz's and compiling/creating .tgz's then installing them ,,,,,,LOL

it is fun but it sure makes you love the huge ubuntu package archives all that much more , spent the last 1/2 hour getting and installing libdvdcss,lame,x264 and ffmpeg ,,,, hahahahaha

VINNY

I go through phases like this too. I get sick of it though and end up back here with Kubuntu and its wonderful repos and meta packages. Have fun!

[Jose Manuel]

I've been using Linux for several years now. I have used many distributions, but without doubt, the best distros I have ever my machine have been Linux Mint and Kubuntu. I will be ordering the distros I've had according to my preference and I will appoint the versions I've tried (starting with the best, to the worst in each I've ever mentioned distribution): My Ranking:

1) Linux Mint (13, 14, 9, 11, 10, 8, 12).

2) Kubuntu (12.04, 12.10, 11.10, 11.04, 10.04, 10.10, 9.04, 9.10, 7.10).

3) Ubuntu (10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 12.04, 12.10, 11.10, 11.04).

4) Xubuntu (12.04, 12.10, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04).

5) Lubuntu (12.10, 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10)

6) Mandriva (2009, 2010, 2008, 2011)

7) Mageia (2, 1)

8) Debian (7, 6, 5)

9) Chakra Linux (2012.10, 2012.12, 2012.08, 2012.07)

10) Manjaro Linux (0.8.3, 0.8.2, 0.8.0)

11) Fedora (16, 17, 18, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 15)

12) OpenSuse (12.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.1, 12.1, 10.3)

[Qqmike]

An impressive history, Jose. But ... my friend ... you missed one of the best (that would be my opinion) ... Kubuntu 8.04! Which I still have running on my older PC (and I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on a newer PC here).
:-)