[wellylug] Rubix

[Bill Christiansen]

I've just been trying a new Slackware based distro called Rubix that
requires a little more manual configuration than the desktop distro's
I've been using in recent times (PCLOS, Kubuntu, MEPIS) jsut so I
learn a bit more about how things work. Actually I found the
configuration wasn't that hard with all the main settings for loading
modules, network configuration and starting daemons storred in the
rc.conf, so you really only have to edit one file. There is a bug in
the installer for grub in that it only wants root to be on /dev/hda3
so you either have to edit the menu.lst or in my case I copied
/lib/devmapper.so /sbin/lilo and /etc/lilo.conf from my other distro
as grub had difficulty writing to an extended partition with my older
bios. For package management they are using "pacman" fro Arch Linux,
so it's nice to get full dependency checking on a Slackware based
distro. You start out with a minimal base install (no X). You then
sync the package database by typing:
pacman -Sy
or sync and upgrade any upgrades available with:
pacman -Syu
You are then ready to add whatever you want with:
pacman -S kde firefox thunderbird

(all the xorg and qt stuff etc will be automatically pulled in the the
dependency checking)

Sorry Gnome lovers, Gnome packages currently unsupported in
repository, but there are some other WM options such as xfce4,
fluxbox, enlightenment.

Bill