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Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin
...let me just blindly extract this precompiled tar.gz over my root directory, and I'll get back to ya.
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I'm have no idea why you would want to do that, but hey have at it.
For DEs, If you want KDE, you have that option. If you want XFCE, you have that option. If you want Gnome, well Pat dropped it because of it's hellish dependencies, but there are at least 3 third party packagers that offer Gnome for Slack... and of course the simple WMs like you mentioned.
No, it isn't for newbs, but it certainly isn't hard to install. It is actually easier IMO than those with pretty graphical installers. Hell of a lot faster too. 15 minutes or so on modest hardware... another 10 - 15 minutes for updates (20 or so packages vs. hundreds like most others).
Stability - unmatched. Packages are typically only updated for security reasons. Packaging - without a doubt the most flexible. True there is no dependency checking but some consider this a good thing.
Init scripts and other internals are all well documented. Kernel (yes by golly, they even offer the 2.6 version) is pure and the distro as a whole is rather unbloated.
I don't know, it just sounds like you really haven't looked at it since 96. You might be pleasantly surprised.