On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:33:33AM -0600, Greg Kedrovsky wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:17:08AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote: > > Wow ... it's nice to see someone switching _to_ Slackware, for a change ;-) > > Really? I don't know why. Slackware seems so much more "Linux" and less > "distro" than anything else I've seen. Well, that's a good enough reason for most to want to run away from Slackware. Remember, we're in the century of the gizmo. The century of the product ended after Y2K. > It kinda reminds me of Mutt: > simple at first sight (most people are turned off by Mutt being "only" a > text e-mail client, etc.) but highly configurable and therefore powerful > after you open the hood. Any RH guru, BTW, will be more than glad to point out here that anything I can hack up with Slackware, he can hack up with RH. The only thing is, you've gotta either (a) tell RH (through the rc.config and/or RPM language) what you've done so it doesn't get all confused, or (b) abandon RH's help in those areas. Personally, I find manuals to be my favorite reading material, so RH's "help" is useless, especially when I'm trying to install on a 386 with a 120 meg drive and don't want to install a stripped-down system. (My original Slackware install was on a 340 meg partition, and it lasted me for years before I finally got an 8.2 gig drive my parents were tossing.) I like Slackware because it's the most friendly distro towards doing your own thing. It doesn't give me headaches when I keep three versions of any given program installed, when I rotate the install paths around (in order to delete the old version, move the current into the old path, and move the dev into the current path, so I can install a new dev), when I decide to install some central library directly from CVS (whereas RH/Debian wouldn't be able to use the new library without some help from you - Slackware doesn't give help and doesn't want help; it just works), etc. Also, because most stuff is still compatible with the way it worked in SunOS (where I got my only formal training), it feels a lot more like "home" (with the added new-user advantage of scripts to help you generate your first version of many config files). It does what an OS should do: do whatever the config files tell it to and complain if that's not possible (after trying - not after looking in its own "database" and deciding it's not worth trying), listen to me at the command prompt by default, and stay out of my way. That's a feeling you can't get in anything but a Slackware-based distro these days (not even in Solaris). > It's kinda like having and tinkering with a '68 > Camaro after you've had the latest model whatever. The latest model > whatever has tons of bells and whistles, but just open the hood and try > to work on it. Too much. But, with a '68 Camaro, you still have a car to > get you from point A to point B, it has MUCH more personality than a > latest model whatever, and when you open the hood, sure it's > complicated, but it's also at the same time simple because you can see a > part and know just what it does. FWIW - I'm a Pontiac fan, so you'll likely see me in an '80s Trans Am as soon as I can afford the upkeep cost. (Ain't neva' gonna see me in no stinkin' Mustang, though ... heaven forbid!) > I have Slackware running now on my > server and my desktop. The swapping of distros on the desktop, though, > is just getting to be too much. All my configs and stuff, getting > everything set back up... I'm going buggy. I use Slackware for all my own computers (except some firewalls running OpenBSD, and one computer (an i80286) running DOS). > -- > Mutt 1.4.1i on Slackware 9.1 Linux Mutt CVS on Slackware 7.1 GNU/Linux, with very little original equipment left > Curridabat, San Jose, Costa Rica Fair Lawn, NJ, USA :-) > http://www.greg-and-sue.com/screenshot.jpg no screenshots available, sorry (how do you do yours, BTW?) > Yahoo Instant Messenger ID: gregkedro only ICQ and AIM (and Jabber, of course) here - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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