I have been using Linux for a while now (mainly Ubuntu and SUSE) but this is first time I am using Slax, so I knew I was bound to have a few problems. During this time, I gathered and bookmarked a few links that made my life easier.
Now I would like to share those links, so if you have any more please post them as well. The links are mainly lists with modules (official, unofficial/user's repositories) and mainly posts that contain troubleshooting info useful mainly to noobies. Finally, I would like to mention that this list is not exhaustive but was created with personal criteria in mind. Enjoy...
Other:
A quick and dirty way to search the Slax site for a specific module is by typing this into Google:
module_name site:www.slax.org/modules.php -dependencies
The idea is good. Of course you will leave out something. Some more links you'll discover while walking, others can/could be told you, here.
Forum, why not rather just plainly give him the link to this site with 3200+, so he can add it.
(im not sure which site it is. Could be Quax' since he is converting the whole slack-rep. Mark has a quite big one too etc... Im outdated)
Anyhow, there is this thread in here called something like "post your modules" . Picard, you can find more links there, I would guess
The fact that you are quite new here, is positive in a way. It is easier for you, to figure out what is useful for beginners, than for oldtimers.
thankx for the info. it would be great if some of these links (or the info contained within ) were available from the slax page.
Ive spent alot of time searching previously for this info and i think its worth its wieght in gold.
i think, my torrent-tracker's adress isn't that bad here.
my intention is to serve a reliable tracker that provides a complete list (starting at slax 6.0.0) of all slax versions available.
because tomas isn't running a bittorrent-tracker himself and i was unable to find another one that satisfied my needs, i have to do it myself ;). i'm running a tracker nevertheless; so i can help here easily as well.
i guess there are some people out there who favour torrent-downloads over all others, just like me.
I like your Slackware 12.1 LiveCD and founded it very very useful. Why not a continuous Slackware LiveCD series ? I mean Slackware 12.2 LiveCD and even Slackware 13 in the future?
A search results in the word(s) being highlighted on the page.
If the word appears in a url, and you click on the url, it will be chopped off at the highlighted word. As a result, some people may not find web pages.
Hello.. can u tell me how to put a dynamic ip on slax? Well actually,..it's not an ip, its account and password ( that's how i connect to internet). plzzzz i need help.
axelrock wrote:
Hello.. can u tell me how to put a dynamic ip on slax? Well actually,..it's not an ip, its account and password ( that's how i connect to internet). plzzzz i need help.
Hi.
I'm astonished, as I've finally found quite detailed Slax documentation I missed so much and curiously, there are very few and hidden links to it in this thread and in the forum generally. It's largely based on the most important forum-posts. I believe, a link to it is worth a prominent place here on the Slax sites, at least for me, it would have made switching to Slax much less painful.
Here it is: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/live/slax/
I had a brief look at it, it looks promising but doesn't seem very much "updated" :s
As for starting out with slax, it definitely contains a lot of useful information.
Well, in the beginning of this game I used to remove a bump before writing a new one.
But sometime me and others bumped by other ways, quotes, nonsense sentences, questions and answers, and removing some of them makes some parts unreadable.
I removed my bumps, but I love "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and its derivates in other languages 'cause of its meaning in a static situation.
After all a single bump is enough to push up the thread, of which the most important part is in the top.
http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
i think this article is quite good.. any noob or even if you think you are a guru, should take a look at it, read it till finish.
feed3
Does anybody believe that anybody ever read the "Read this first!" link as the first one? Does anybody believe that anybody ever read the "Read this first!" link at all? (Personally, I find it a bit long and boring...)
More generally, I'm afraid this link collection is of little use for most of newcomers as it contains too much stuff. I'd suggest to select say 8 top-links and put them on at the beginning, followed by a long gap and first then by another links. Then, newcomers wouldn't by scared off, I believe. I'd suggest these 2 links as candidates for the "Top 8" selection:
Your "Read this first!" solution seems to be almost better than Feed3's solution ;). I would endorse one or the other. And why not Top threads for Slax, Palmares, ... .
The problem if you want to secate Captain Picard's thread is that he will have to put the remaining groups of eight threads under subtitles before refering them into subsequent threads. However, your proposition has the advantage that these bunch of eights would roll within the forum and might be hyperlinked one to another. A very good way to bring people from one thread to another.
I think, I've been misunderstood. I'm just suggesting to put 8 most important links on top of this thread and divide them clearly from the rest with a gap. The rest of the thread can remain as it is. That way, a newcomer opening this thread wouldn't be confronted with a mess of tens of links beginning with "How to ask" pointing to a 100 pages long document, he/she would find 8 useful links instead at first glance.
i think this site is very good for any beginner to start with before going further into linux generally, and slax specifically. Even though this site does not written specifically for slax but for linux in general, and there's some issues in which some of slax users might not agree with it(e.g root account) but it is just very good site for any newcomers. There's even some general HowTo's, tips n trick etc..
Start with the basic first, for example; to know that "Linux is made with one thought in mind: Everything is a file" then you will get more clearer view on how drives is mounted in linux and so on..
Just some ideas of mine, as usual, sorry for those who doesnt think it is good info, and for those who think it might help, enjoy your linux and slax.. =)
