Comments on: Open source snobbery or why awesome is almost, but not quite enough http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/ Fri, 17 May 2013 18:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejer http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-45693 Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejer Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:25:01 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-45693 The problem solved itself by becoming another problem:
My Thinkpad burned out, so I am working off an EEE with Debian at the moment.

]]> By: Steven Rosenberg http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-45662 Steven Rosenberg Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:01:56 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-45662 Did you stick with Fedora, go with Debian or #!? Or other?

]]> By: k http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-45212 k Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:32:20 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-45212 I say go with whatever works, as long as it’s FOSS =P

]]> By: mjjzf http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-34874 mjjzf Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:45:26 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-34874 Wifi-Radar, perhaps?
Anyway, I came across this:
http://task3.cc/190/networkmanager-on-slackware-13-37/
- so NM is certainly an option. Also, since I use my own network 4 out of 5 times, I could probably make do with wpa_supplicant.
This *is* weird, though.

]]> By: Bjarke Todbjerg Nielsen http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-34873 Bjarke Todbjerg Nielsen Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:41:19 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-34873 At the moment I simply use network-manager, but I don’t actually recall what I used in Slackware. Probably WICD :-P . I seem to remember that there was another WICD like application which I may have used, but the name escapes me.

]]> By: mjjzf http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-34871 mjjzf Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:26:22 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-34871 Maybe it is one of those IBM-hardware-pretending-to-be-standardised things. Do you use WICD?
Interestingly, after I have screwed up my Fedora install by pulling out a lot of services and modifying my Lxdm, it is actually much nicer. So right now I am… less distressed.

]]> By: Bjarke Todbjerg Nielsen http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-34867 Bjarke Todbjerg Nielsen Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:15:55 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-34867 Morten; Well, that’s a valid point – cramping your Slackware system with a bloated kernel from some other distribution might somehow defy the purpose of Slackware. It would definitely show you whether your problem was solely a kernel thing, though.
ipw2200 you say – I use that firmware on the thinkpad. Mine is a PRO/Wireless 2915ABG wireless chip which seemed to work well in Slackware.

]]> By: mjjzf http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-34848 mjjzf Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:37:49 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-34848 Bjarke,
Yeah… about that.
Funny thing is, the reason I use Slackware is simplicity. Doing the setup and fixing up the scripts is so transparent that there is not a lot of work to it. And as you say, you and I have built a kernel or two in our time, though it has been a while in my case.
I actually suspected the firmware, since the IPW2200 requires something extra – but that is apparently updated, so there shouldn’t be an issue.
To be honest, most distributions drive me crazy. I love Debian in so many ways, but the dependency handling, as in I am just going to install this, this and that, because you may at some point conceivably need it can drive me up the wall. So I expect to be troubleshooting alongside my daily system.
I am also considering a Slackware downgrade, since I build most things from Slackbuilds.org anyway. That will also fix my suspend and resume issue (well, only resume, actually, but… you know).

Philip,
The only PAE issues I had were with the RHEL family, and I got the impression that their big iron-approach means that they basically Can’t Be Bothered(TM) with non-PAE hardware.
I am taking Crunchbang in as well – your approach to Openbox is exactly how I like it.

]]> By: corenominal http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-34826 corenominal Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:23:42 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-34826 Another vote for Debian. It is well worth the bit of work required to get into it. Also, I think it should gain bonus points for being a 100% community run distro. Regarding the PAE issues, Debian’s 486 flavoured kernel should be fine for your system :)

]]> By: Bjarke Todbjerg Nielsen http://writtenandread.net/open-source-snobbery/comment-page-1/#comment-34795 Bjarke Todbjerg Nielsen Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:23:42 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=612#comment-34795 Being forced into distro exile due to some small, yet annoyingly persistent bug is frustrating. Somehow, knowing you, I’d think that you’d be more satisfied installing Slackware and giving the troubleshooting a real go :-) For instance, you could download the entire source tarball for the actual kernel configuration used on your Fedora system and try compiling it in Slackware. At least i presume that Fedora packages an easily portable kernel tarball – Ubuntu and Debian does.
That being said, taking Debian for a spin is not a bad idea. Personally I haven’t bothered about using Slackware for a while, for the simple reason that I can’t put my finger on anything that needs changing in the default Debian install.

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