Good idea, Thanks Stephen On 01/07/2013 09:17 PM, Stephen wrote: > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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." 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