Program looks a little like the install from Free BSD, but it is very Simply typed “setup” and I’ve entered in the installation program. So I won’t make any extra partitions like for /usr or /home. (utility for partitioning a hard disk, pretty intuitive IMHO), and made a This may seem a little strange to people who are used toĭistributions like Mandrake or Red Hat, but it is normal. I selected my keyboard mapping and logged in as root without introducingĪny password. Loads a kernel before the install process starts, but Slackware just asksīefore so that it can load one with specific drivers for specific hardware. *Notice for newbies and those who don’t know: every Linux distribution With 8.1 I had to load USB.i and with otherĭistributions, I had to use “Linux noapic”.
After loading the bare.i kernel, I was surprised that my Mention that Slackware 9.0 supports all 4 journaling file systems: ReiserFS,Įxt3, XFS and JFS. I’ve used ReiserFS with the previous release,Īnd I don’t use SCSI or RAID, so I’ll select bare.i. The installer shows me a list of pre-compiled kernels for specific After the CD booted, I was asked to select a kernel and press. The installation process we all know from 8.1 and earlier releases hasn’tĬhanged much.
I also did not upgrade from 8.1 to 9.0 for twoġ) I don’t like to upgrade distributions, unless it isĢ) This release is compiled with gcc 3.2.2 so everything Other stuff from the /slackware-9 directory including zip-slack (which by *just* the official ISO released by Slackware I also downloaded all of the
I would like to say for the first that I didn’t only download Here is a mini-review of their latest release, 9.0.Įditorial Notice: All opinions are those of the author and not necessarily those of
*NIX like distribution and has borrowed many of the things we can find inīSD *NIX. For those who believe that Slackware was the first Linux distribution I have news, because SLS was before Slackware, but that is another story. Slackware is the oldest surviving Linux distribution out there.
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