Andre,
Slackware is (was?) a rather old Linux distribution. Since you're using
Fedora, you don't need to concern yourself with it.
If you don't like Wine so much, one option is VMware to run Windows inside
an emulated system (it still manages to be quite fast). Alternatively, you
could give the gputils suite of linux pic programs (assembler, linker, etc.)
a try.
For making things look good, you can try setting up beryl. It has more eye
candy than is good for you.
To make your system look like a mac, check out the different Window Manager
and GTK themes that are available.
Regards,
- Marcel

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Andre Abelian <aabelian@mason-electric.com>
wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> What's slackware for lenux? I searched on line there are some
> explanation but I still do not get it. I want to get most from linux os
> and I do not know what else is available. Now I know about KDE, Gnome.
> I use Fedora OS it works very well so far.
> I found info about WINE to use windows applications but for some reason it
> freezes for me.
> I downloaded almost 80% of packages but all of them look like small
> software
> no thing serous.
>
>
> my question is
>
> 1. what is slackware
> 2. how can I make wine work to use MPLAB?
> 3. what else should I use to make linux cooler looking?
> 4. what should I use to make linux look like mac?
>
> thanks
>
> Andre
>
>
>
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