Trying out Slackware

[Littlefield, tyler]

that's not a very hard program to write...
slackware requires some coding at times to.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: Trying out Slackware


> Zachary Kline wrote:
> > What is the method for installing stuff that isn't in the Slackware
>> package lists?
> 
>     On the install DVD/CDs, you'll find a directory named "slackbook." 
>  Not only does it teach you something about Slackware, but a little 
> about Linux itself.  Use your web browser and load the index.html file. 
>  It sounded like a pretty well written pamphlet on the system.  I'm 
> used to books being a little larger. <grins>  I assume you'll have to 
> visit Sourceforge for additional packages and install them into 
> /usr/local.  How they missed dos2unix I don't know, but the 'tr' command 
> should do for removing carriage returns.
> 
>         Michael
> 
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