Posted by Dave on 5/26/2009, 1:42 pm
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I've tried installing into Virtualbox on my tower machine Zenwalk and Absolute Linux, both spinoffs of Slackware. Zenwalk installed but wouldn't boot far enough to even get a command line. Absolute installed, but I never could complete the upgrades; it kept crashing before the upgrades would be finished and I eventually gave up in frustration.
I'd like to have a Slack-based distro to play with, especially because of its different system of package management. I tried Arch earlier; it has a GUI but it's really designed to run from console. I'm not THAT hardcore :^). But there are a lot of Slack spinoffs: Nimblex, stux, vector, puppy and friends, draco, burapha, saxenos, and zip. One of them will serve. That's one of the very good things about Linux: There's so much choice! :^>.
Right now I'm starting to install Sabayon4.0 in Virtualbox. It's a Gentoo spinoff, and uses mostly compiled source package management. Already installed in VB are: Antix-M8 and Mepis 8, both set to Debian testing repositories; and PCLOS 2009 set to its standard repo. PCLOS, though, seems pretty tame compared with the others, like tiddlywinks when you've been playing slap poker.
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas
dave@christos.cjb.net, dpeirce@christian.net
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
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