Welldone to all!

[dejavu]

This is the best distro ever!!! I installed salix 13.37 with xfce in a pentium centrino @ 1.7GHz laptop with 512MB RAM @ 133MHz and it runs smoothly! Even my girlfriend's desktop pc with 2.6 core2duo prossesor and 2 gb ram runs slower than mine! Seriously!!!! Maybe it is because she has windows 7 but... its too much difference!!! I 've tried ubuntu, xubuntu and nothing!!!! thank guys for this wonderful os!!!!!!!!!

P.S.: Sorry for my english!!!
P.S.2: My laptop is from year 2002!!!!

[mimosa]

Yes, it really is quite fast, isn't it? I have 1GB RAM now, but Salix ran very well on less before. I did try installing Gnome (http://gnomeslackbuild.org, but see instrucitons here on the Salix wiki) and that slowed it down. So xfce must have something to do with it, as well as Salix/Slackware itself.

[Dani745]

AMD Duron with 512 MB RAM here

[Robin]

I am amazed at the speed on a similar computer (an old Dell Dimension, 512 RAM, Celeron). Even the LiveCD (LXDE) was faster than installed Xubuntu! That has never happened before.

I went and messed it up trying to "trade LXDE for Xfce," I think. I must have removed the session manager or something by mistake... then I misread and mistyped some upgrade commands (I have eyesight and hearing issues) and did even more damage, lol. So I'm waiting for the silly-kid-proof LiveCD of 13.37 Xfce to try again. But if it can be messed up, I'll find a way.

I like the super long-term-support of Slackware (I'm told that version 2 is still getting security updates - that's like what - 9 years!? No other distro comes close to that) and I'm just amazed at the speed and versatility.

[mimosa]

Robin, you're not the only one to introduce unwitting typos on the command line

Do you know about pasting into the terminal with the middle mouse button? Just select any text (for instance, some code from the forum or wiki), make sure the cursor is next to the prompt in the terminal, and click. You can edit the text before pressing enter, but be aware that if there is more than one line, the line breaks are interpreted as returns, so those will be executed immediately - so you might want to copy and paste line by line, depending.

Another useful feature I expect you've come across is using up arrow to go back through commands previously entered. Again, you can edit before pressing enter. I often use this if I mistyped a command - up arrow, edit to correct, bingo. Missing out spaces seems to be a particular weakness of mine, as in

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slapt-get-i some-wonderful-application

which of course doesn't work:

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bash: slapt-get-i: command not found

Pasting with the mouse works pretty much anywhere, by the way. For instance, I used it to copy the above error message. (It's useful if anyone asks you to post the output from something, especially if there is a lot.)

[thenktor]

Another useful feature I expect you've come across is using up arrow to go back through commands previously entered. Again, you can edit before pressing enter. I often use this if I mistyped a command - up arrow, edit to correct, bingo.

First thing I do on every installation I have to use is edit /etc/inputrc:
from

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"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history

to

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"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

So I can use PageUp/PageDown to search my bash history, e.g. I type ssh, hit PageUp and it finds ssh -L 5001:localhost:5001 -CY somename@someserver.dyndns.org. Retyping long commands sucks

[mimosa]

Have to give that a try. Discovering C-r was a revolution for me, but yours looks like it could be even better. The search string doesn't have to be at the beginning of the line, right?

[Robin]

This is all so cool! I think the command line is a wonderful "secret weapon" to get things done quickly and cleanly. I never used it in Windows and very rarely in Xubu.

I'm still scared of it, lol, especially after I b0rked my previous installation. A Google search of "regularly used Linux commands" yields a jungle of stuff, and I can't sort out what works in Slackware or Debian or Red Hat... is there a "SalixOS command line primer for silly autistic kids" anywhere? I need that.

Actually maybe I don't really need that since Salix - once it's set up - is as "friendly" as any other distro I think. Just faster! And supported for much longer. And not prone to breakage that isn't my fault, lol.

Thanks for the tips!

[mimosa]

See

http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=852

though the resources there aren't specific to Salix (Slackware). Because the command line itself is pretty much the same everywhere - it's the inner workings of each distro that differ. And Salix's are much more transparent and better organised than some others I could mention.

See also http://www.linuxquestions.org, which has a Slackware board and a newbie board - and above all, is searchable!

It's out of date, but I like

http://www.tuxfiles.org

See also the section on the command line in the new draft Guide, item two under Documentation on the Salix homepage.