Question: Since, VL is based on Slackware, once familiar with VL does Slackware get easy or is it an all together different ball game ? Thanks.
Answer: Nope, it's not that hard. If you save your XF86Config-4 file and write down the modules you are using, you shouldn't have any problems.
The tough bits are:
Slack does come with GNOME and KDE, but they are too much for older systems. If you are running an older system, you will either have to use Xfce3 or compile a different wm. (I use xfwm4 + idesk + gnome-panel.)
You will really miss sndconfig. Badly. Be sure to write down what modules your soundcard needs and the correct parameters (look in /etc/modules.conf).
No vasm.
The default install of slackware is about 2 GB. Vector's default install is less than 500MB, and it comes with some apps that you will want to install in slackware. I was able to trim down the slack install to about 1.1GB by eliminating KDE and GNOME and a few other things (I miss gnome-panel!) but I don't think I could get it down to 500 MB without a lot of thinking...
The great thing about VL is it comes ready out of the box with a great wm for old machines (icewm) and desktop icons and configuration utilities AND is under 500 MB (that's the big one) AND a totally new linux user can just sit down, install it, and have a fully working system on their "useless" 200 Mhz machine with a minimum of problems.
If you have a 5GB + hard drive it will make you life a lot easier as you can just choose "install everything."
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