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infiniphunk
06-23-2005, 02:04 AM
Well gang, I have to say, I've been using MiniSlack (http://minislack.slackplanet.org/) for a few months and wow am I impressed. Right now I'm dual-booting Minislack along with Hoary 5.04 and its truly impressive how easy it is to use. And oh yeah, its fast, light, stable and all the Slackware 10.1 packages work with it.
Their newest release is Minislack 1.1; has kernel 2.6.11.10. I know, I know, not the rock-solid stability some of you are looking for your servers. I'm using Minislack for a desktop.
I'd have to say this is definitely a distro for those of you who've felt intimidated by Slackware in the past. I still have an awful lot to learn myself, but honestly, I find it amazing how much I get done. And really I'm at a loss to think of something that I haven't been able to make work on this system.
Their forum is really good to, really good help there, where you'll find yourselves posting back and forth with the developers themselves. It's cool!
Today I decided to upgrade my system. No problem. They have a tool called "netpkg" that works a lot like apt for debian. Upgraded all my programs to the newest versions.
Anybody else here tried it yet?? You should!
eskaypey
06-23-2005, 02:34 AM
ahh ..
/me convinced
/me downloading
ahh ..
/me convinced
/me downloading
Ditto!
PS: Those screenshots look great!
vontez
06-23-2005, 10:30 AM
Everytime I read about someone using minislack, I've always thought it was Zipslack. Oops! Looks like I have a new distro to try out!
JayMan8081
06-23-2005, 11:27 AM
Wow, the screenshots look impressive. I think I will be downloading this and trying it out as well. I've never tried Slackware and have always wanted to, so maybe thi s will be a good place to start from.
pezplaya
06-23-2005, 11:48 AM
I don't really understand how you guy can judge a distro by how it looks from a screenshot.
You either use KDE, Gnome, XFCE, fluxbox, enlightenment... whatever and you configure it with the theme and icon set you like. All distros can look exactly the same...
I guess its a newer distro so people are curious.
cybertron
06-23-2005, 11:51 AM
I don't really understand how you guy can judge a distro by how it looks from a screenshot.
Yeah, just to play devil's advocate what's so great about those screenshots? They look like any other screenshot from any other distro I've ever seen.:)
Besides, nobody's going to take screenshots of their distro that don't look good.:D
infiniphunk
06-23-2005, 12:03 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, default desktop-environment is Xfce, which is nice and light. Of course, fans of KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox and others can just install that themselves. The packages provided for Enlightenment17 work very well. That DE is really nice too.
As a reminder, you'll have to make a user for yourself after installation using adduser.
Default runlevel is 3, so you'll also have to type "startx" to launch the desktop. BTW, some knowledge of VIM text-editor is helpful at first. See their forums (linked from the Minislack homepage) on instructions on installing drivers (for video, sound etc.) as well as adding more packages.
sawt.one
07-20-2005, 09:10 AM
the install didn't go too well.. bunch of bash scripts misconfigured..
MMYoung
07-20-2005, 09:35 PM
How is MiniSlack different from Slackware? Better installer? Better apps?
Just wondering,
MMYoung
infiniphunk
07-20-2005, 10:35 PM
Its pretty much the same as Slackware, except that they stick to one app for each purpose, so its a fair bit smaller. I also run Slackware 10.1 on another partition, so its been sort of a past time of mine lately to compare them.
The installer is almost exactly the same, Minislack is just a different colour. Slackware 10.1 you can install all kinds of DE's, with Minislack the installer only includes XFCE. Minislack 1.1 also installs with 2.6.11.10 kernel, not 2.4.
Overall I'd say there are a few nice bonuses with Minislack, including a new package manager called netpkg. Its kinda like apt for debian, just a lot less packages available right now.
P.S. don't expect it to be called Minislack for long, they are having to change the distro's name quite soon. Anybody got an idea for a new name?
MMYoung
07-20-2005, 10:44 PM
OK, I was just wondering. Sounds like miniature version of Slackware.
:confused:
HEY, WAIT A MINUTE! MINIature... SLACKware...
:eek:
MiniSlack
:D
Later,
MMYoung
soulestream
07-21-2005, 01:15 AM
P.S. don't expect it to be called Minislack for long, they are having to change the distro's name quite soon. Anybody got an idea for a new name?
wait it has 2.6 kernel.
Xfce
new installer
new packagemanager
smaller footprint with less programs.
lets call it vectorlinux. :D
oh wait someone already did that ;)
soule
MMYoung
07-21-2005, 01:24 AM
wait it has 2.6 kernel.
Xfce
new installer
new packagemanager
smaller footprint with less programs.
lets call it vectorlinux. :D
oh wait someone already did that ;)
soule
Now, now soule, lets be nice! :p
Later,
MMYoung
soulestream
07-21-2005, 01:31 AM
guess i might download it and give it a shot :rolleyes:
soule