Started with RH, went to slack. I've been meaning to try out others,
but I can't being myself to. Hail Slack!
Packages are usually not available, but with checkinstall, you can make
rpm, deb, or tgz packages. Give them to friends or use them on all your
systems without recompiling.
Not a starter distro, but excellent for building your own system.
Excellent stability and security.
Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 07:57 pm, Brad N Bendily wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I used to use Red Hat, and I still do at work,
>>>since that's what came installed on the box.
>>>
>>>But, at home, it's Slackware. Is this a good
>>>time to start a distro holy war?
>>
>>
>>www.distrowatch.com
>>
>>
>>There are a lot of cool distro's out there. Most
>>of them based on RedHat (i wonder what they'll do now).
>>
>>I can't wait to see the new SuSe after Novell is
>>finished with it!
>>
>>BB
>>
>
>
> I like this one better (guess why):
>
> http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware
>
> If you want play with Linux, use one of the RPM based distros.
> If you want to learn Linux, use Slackware.
>
> Maybe we could get a poll on the nolug site or just have
> people weigh in on the list on their OS.
>
> Andy
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