Slackware vs the others

[Stephen]

Slackware is a solid distribution.  Look up slapt-get it will give you some
of the apt get functionality you liked.
On Jan 7, 2013 7:24 PM, "Derek Trotter" <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:

>  This happened often enough that I'm sure the machine was locking up.
> Video playback stopped.  So did music.  Any game I might have been playing
> stopped.  It wouldn't respond to pings.  Ctrl+alt+delete did nothing.
> Ctrl+f1 did nothing.  Trust me.  It locked up.  Slackware just works.  Even
> though I have to compile some programs and this takes some time, in the
> end, they work.  I won't mess with the other distros.  Also the others had
> trouble identifying and configuring either the audio, video or both.
> Kubuntu would ID the monitor and give me 1600x900, but I had to mess with
> the audio.  Debian would get the audio right, but it acted as if the
> monitor was 4x3.  The others had varying problems.  Once I got the audio
> and video working, I'd install vlc and there was trouble with it playing
> audio correctly and resuming audio playback after pausing and unpausing.
>
> When I installed slackware and ran it the first time, the video was
> correctly configures and so was the audio.  When I installed vlc, it played
> audio when resuming playback after pausing.  I'll stick with slackware as
> long as I have this machine.  When I eventually get another, I'll try the
> others again.  I really liked being able to type in apt-get install
> whatever and have it running a minute or two later.  But that doesn't do me
> much good if I can't watch a Firefly episode all the way through.
>
> I'm sure slackware isn't for everybody, but I'm glad it's there.
>
> Derek
>
>
>  On 01/07/2013 05:57 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>
> Just curious; are you sure that it was actually locking up?  It might be
> that something was making the X server become unresponsive, but the
> machine, as a whole, was just fine.
> Recently my machine was "locking up" a lot, but it would only do it when I
> was listing to music.  It turned out that there is a bug in Amarok that if
> it tries to play an MP3 file that has 0 size. that it would crash, and it
> turns out that if it crashes after the screen has blanked that things go
> bonkers and nothing responds.
>
> ...but it turns out that I could still ssh into my machine from another
> computer and investigate what was broken.  Turns out that when I went to
> recover a bunch of MP3 files from some CDs that were about 20 years old
> that when it couldn't recover the file it just wrote out the name of the
> file with nothing in it.
>
> In any case, I've found that Linux almost never locks up, it just becomes
> unresponsive from the desktop, to the point that CTRL+ALT+F1 won't ever do
> anything for you, but ssh/telnet will almost always get you into the
> machine and let you identify and kill what is causing the problem.
>
> The only reason I mention this is that is you find that Slackware won't do
> it for you in the long run, there may be hope in getting one of your
> previous distros to work for you.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 01/07/2013 02:42 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>
> Some of you might remember of the last few months me posting about my
> system locking up running linux. This last Saturday marked my system
> running slackware for a whole week without locking up once.  Before this
> I had tried Kubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora and Centos.
>
> I'm guessing Slackware has something the other distros I've tried don't
> or the others have something Slackware doesn't.  There has to be some
> difference.  Any ideas what it is?
>
> Thanks
> Derek
>
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