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" 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 > > -- > "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m > not there, I carry on as usual." > > Patrick Moore > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > -- > "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual." > > Patrick Moore > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >