Just downloaded Slack 8

[AmbientFiction]

Me I'm a mandrake man myself I own 7.2 and 8.0 . So I downloaded Slackware8.0 No not bigslack just Slackware and wanted to know what people thinks about Slack. Is it much different then Mandrake and if so anything I might need to know?

 

[klosters64a]

To the best of my knowledge, Slackware is as different from Mandrake as night and day. Slackware is known as the "real man's" Linux, and "the Linux that people who really want to learn the nuts and bolts of Linux run." AFAIK, Slackware demands that you do everything the hard way. So much so, that you use the CLI a lot more than GUI.

As I'm not enough of a "real man," I can't tell you if all of the above is true. I've never tried Slackware! Red Hat, Caldera, Mandrake and SuSE, but not Slackware.

 

[JigPu]

Does that mean I'm turning into a "real man"??? LOL!! I just had to see what linux ran like, and downloaded a tiny linux distro (designed to boot of a floppy tiny). I personaly like the CLI! Kinda reminicant of DOS, only I don't know all the commands . If only I had enough money or modem to buy/downlad "beginers" linux distro like mandrake....