[NBLUG/talk] Slackware install

[A'fish'ionado]

> > One final random comment: Slackware, by default, launches a command
> shell
> > at
> > startup instead of a graphical login window. You get to log into bash
> and
> > run startx from there. I poked around to see if KDM or GDM was
> installed,
>
> And this saves you from the rescue-disk reboot shuffle that occurs if you
> have some weird video setup that the default Redhat/Suse/Whatever distro
> installer mis-identifies and starts up X on non-existent hardware at boot.


Oh, I'm fine with not having a graphical login installed and enabled by
default; I was just surprised that nothing beyond XDM was included at all.

... I kind of like having a point-and-click way to change desktop shells.
:-)

William
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