Quote Originally Posted by nihil
I know nothing about slackware
I am just learning slackware. I started with debian etch this last january but ran into problems with the programs freezing quite often. I was not able to find any solutions.
So I thought I would try Slackware. I have found it to be quite stable. However It is not so user friendly for a newbie like me.

Quote Originally Posted by nihil
but would imagine that you initiate your own downloads?
Unlike debian, slackware does not have apt-get. I had to install slapt-get from http://software.jaos.org/
Slackware and linuxpackages.net has repositories but I have found them to be somewhat limited for slackware 12.

So I have had to manually download several programs including Shorewall since I found no packages available.

Slackware also has installpkg but it does not work for <program>.tar.gz downloads. I found that the majority of downloadable programs in linux are in the <program>.tar.gz format. Then I have to manually install the program.