Alex, is there another site to download slackware? The link you provided seems to either be a bad link, or the site is down at the time. Glenn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Jes and guide dog Harley" <jesman598 at triad.rr.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:30 AM Subject: Re: Debian or slackware? Hi. I would go with slackware. it was my first distro and I still use it. I found it's install easier since the latest version comes with speakup stock and this is not the case with debian. one more advantage is slackware comes on only 2 cd's (actually 4 but that last two are source code). so all you need is on those first 2 disks. if you don't want gnome or kde you only need the first cd but the second one is also a really cool rescue disk so it's worth downloading. you can get the iso images from ftp://ftp.eunet.be/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:53:30AM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote: > Folks, I have a few questions about my first installation of Linux. I'm wondering since I am a total newby, if I should go with > debian woodie/potato first, or try slackware 9.1 for a trial run? I don't need a lot of packages right now, I want a lot but don't > need a lot for an introduction to Linux, and I figure that if I'm going to get really introduced to it the less packages, the > better. This way, I can be more focused on the structure of the operating system itself, rather than on what packages do what and > which ones I have installed, etc. My final question is, I know that to install Debian's packages you must have an iso image of the > cd unless you want to do a network install (which I'm not planning on.) but what about slackware? If I have to have an iso image, > where do I get the cd images? > Thanks a lot for any help. > Jes > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
