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10-10-2006, 09:28 PM
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| it's OK, I'm a limo driver.  Silent Steve is Online Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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    | Slackware 11.0   Kicks the shit out of windows! | ||||
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10-10-2006, 09:48 PM
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| The official MIIDAJ penis.  CallMeHerb is Offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: A different plane of existance
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 | Re: Slackware 11.0 where'd you get it? | ||||
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10-10-2006, 10:12 PM
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| it's OK, I'm a limo driver. Silent Steve is Online Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 | ||||
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10-10-2006, 10:22 PM
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| Brofessor  TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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   | Re: Slackware 11.0 | ||||
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10-10-2006, 11:39 PM
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| senile, amoral crackpot  dan, muthafucka! is Offline Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Toronto
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 what's wrong with windows? works great for me... | ||||
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10-10-2006, 11:59 PM
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| Brofessor TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 Something different and totally new. Don't be scared of change. | ||||
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10-11-2006, 09:05 AM
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| Brofessor TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 Windowz is alwayz broke. | ||||
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10-11-2006, 02:04 PM
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| it's OK, I'm a limo driver. Silent Steve is Online Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 Originally Posted by da420
for sure! Windows was getting boring, I like to broaden my horizons without leaving my desk.
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10-11-2006, 04:15 PM
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| Brofessor TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 Fo'shizzle | ||||
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10-11-2006, 10:28 PM
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| the szooze button on a smoke alarm  TacoSusio is Offline Join Date: May 2006 Location: in my own little world
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 | Re: Slackware 11.0 do all apps run under either of these alternative operating systems or would i have to use 'alternatives' as well? | ||||
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10-11-2006, 11:07 PM
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| Brofessor TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 Originally Posted by TacoSusio
Most everything is compatible with each version. There are a few that have different builds, and different versions totally. Many Windows programs can be run on Wine, which is a Windows emulation program to run Windows programs. I have Skype, GAIM for my IM wich combines AIM, MSN, and Yahoo along with a few others, GIMP is a pretty bad ass photo editor, SwiftFox for my browser, Amarok and Rhymebox as my mp3 player, Azereus for torrents, Firebird for my Email client, aMule as my p2p which uses the Gnuetella network, gFTP for FTP, Bluefish/SCREEM as my PHP/XHTML editor, MPlayer as my movie player, Open Office for my Word needs, and k3de or something for DVD burning. Even anti virus, although there doesn't seem to be much of a threat, but whatever, better safe than sorry. So pretty much anything that can be done in Widows. Plus there are "package managers" that have a huge library of things that can be downloaded and installed to it, so you have that, and it fucking makes Linux SO much easier, especially in this Ubuntu build. Synaptic Package Manager and Automatix are my best freind in here.
It updates itself pretty much. Every few days I get a notice that I need to update some things. I do it takes not much then a few minutes. So need not worry about that. I fucking LOVE the layout. Fucking LOVE the multi desktops. When you have many windows up, it's so much fucking easier to go by desktops. Browser, and GAIM in desktop one, gFTP and PHP Editor in desktop two, Downloading shit with P2P/torrents in another, and have my music in the other. It just adds to the orginaztion and bad assness. Not just one boring desktop either. The two most popular ones are GNOME and KDE. I have both of them, there are several others. They are totally customizable. Put your most popular programs right on the bar for easy access. Have as many menus and panels as you want. I added an extra bar for easy access to my Bookmarks, Desktop, and Windows and shit right from the top menu. You look in the left corner I have my browser, skype, GAIM, gFTP, aMule, Azeurus, and Amarok right there for easy access. Shit, you can hide that bar completely with one simple click. Here are the desktops... I can switch between them simply by "changing sessions." Easy as logging out and clicking change session and picking the desktop you want to boot into. GNOME Desktop:  KDE Desktop:  I'm not sure which one is better, but they both are bad ass. I ain't gonna sugar coat it completely. Sometimes it's a bitch to get the programs working 100% properly. It usually doesn't take much more than a google search. Most things have fixes, and easy ones. It takes a bit of time and work getting it working nicely. FireFox has sound control problems, it can't have any other audio playing while it's playing. If you want to hear a YouTube video but were already listening to Audio you have to close that, then closer FireFox then reopen FireFox. There is a fix for it though, and I'm just waiting for my new HD before I fix that again after my reformat as I had it fixed before. Another thing is Flash ain't that great. The sound doesn't always match, and some things require Flash 8 or 9 and it won't work cause the latest Linux build is 7. Be ready to learn a little command line. Sometimes it takes a little knowledge of that to do some things. | ||||
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10-11-2006, 11:24 PM
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| Brofessor TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 There are other small just bugs and problems, but they are nothing. I can't even think of one off the top of my head. The change is not that hard, and not that terribly drastic. If you do not have time to dick around with your computer for a week to get it working 100% then I wouldn't really recommend it as it is a bit time consuming getting every thing working. My internet worked right at boot up, so that was not a problem, most wireless shit even works flawlessly on Ubuntu. On my regular Comcast internet it was even working from the DVD bootable drivers. I was browsing the internet and talking on IM WHILE it was installing, lol. Only took 20-30 minutes max to install. Partioning, formatting, installing and all. Pretty straight forward install too. If ya got the time, and are looking for something new, I would definately try it. Maybe just download the Ubuntu bootable DVD and burn it as an .iso to a DVD and boot from CD to try it out. I definately love dicking with this shit. It's something new, and totally different to me. It's fucking bad ass. | ||||
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