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WMD:
Hmmm...

You guys are saying great things about ReiserFS and such...when I installed Slackware a few weeks ago, I just used ext2 (n00b warning  :D  ).  Is there some way to convert, and if so, is it worth trying for a newbie?

skyman8081:
I hear great things aboot Slack, but how it is compared too what I run right now, Gentoo.  I don't like how slack does the "su, ./configure && make install" compared to Gentoo's portage system. e.g. "emerge mplayer" there IS a binary flag ("-k" so "emerge -k mozilla-firebird", useful for apps like KDE, OOo and mozilla, which take an ASS-LONG time to compile. mplayer is one of the few apps where it is useful to compile it the normal way, if you want a GUI.I hear that slack is easier than gentoo, but I am not sure.  for the kernel did you do make menuconfig, etc...  because gentoo has a lot of cool apps that help out. (like genkernel (kernel compiler)) et cetera.

so, how is slack compared to Gentoo?

Master of Reality:
there is the slackware package system which kicks ass. And you dont have to compile mozilla in any Linux distro (unless the installer doesnt work). the xconfig for the 2.6 kernel is great and i found that no other apps were needed. You can also install slapt-get and download and install packages straight from the net (like the apt-get system in debian)

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