One of the major benefits of Slackware is that it doesn't use GUI configuration tools. In distros that do have these, they work fine 80% of the time, but taking care of the remaining 20% is a royal pain. Another major benefit is that it's very clean - it's quite possible to have an almost complete understanding of the layout of a Slackware system, something that, for me anyways, is impossible on other distros that swamp everything with hundreds of vendor-specific configuration files. If you like learning new stuff and if you can get into the habit of RTFM-ing and using Google, Slackware comes highly recommended. Just be aware that it will take a while before you've set it up as an audio workstation - it doesn't even enable sound out of the box! However, it's definitely doable, and if you succeed, you'll have a system that's set up just the way you want it, with no extra cruft lying around. take care, Matthijs de Jonge http://devdsp.net - news and resources for computer musicians On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:10:59AM +0200, Moeflon wrote: > I think I'm ready to move away from MDK... > > Been messing around the last couple of days with MDK 9.1(rc3) Or I did > something wrong, or urpmi has some probs, anyhow, more than 3/4 of the > sound rpms I tried to install from the 9.1 plf sources seem to be > corrupted (as I may believe what urpmi tells me) > > => Does anybody knows this comes? Is it normal? > > > > I 'm getting headaches from the rpm-system. I'd like to move over to > Slackware. > > => Does anybody have any idea how difficult/easy it is to build a > sound-workstation on slack? any links? > > > Been working on linux for a bit over a year now. Really nice OS. > Wonderful to see how things are getting better all the time!! > > > Karel (alias Moeflon)
