i cant stand the gui shtty stuff either. but i have an alpha... where
slakware for alpha :) that was my big reason for change. i run it on my
x86 just so i dont have to remeber which file structure im using on
each box... but i hear so many good things about SuSE and Debian and so
little about slak these days...
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On 11 Sep, twist. wrote:
> Hrm...I've been using slakware for about a year and a half, and have been
> through three versions (3.3, 3.4, 3.5) on different machines. I don't
> remember what kernel version 3.3 had, but 3.4 had kernel v2.0.30. I guess
> it doesn't matter much, as I doubt your reasons for preferring redhat don't
> have much to do with kernel versions. I'm curious to know what you mean by
> "a lot of good things". While it's true that the noticeable changes to
> slackware are pretty much limited to newer versions of software, that is
> what attracts me to the dist. I appreciate the "rawness" of it, as it lets
> me get to what I need to, and I don't have to mess with "newfangled" guis.
> Redhat is great for people who don't have a lot of time to spend learning
> UN*X, but I'm sticking with slak :-)
>
> At 12:30 PM 9/11/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>yes 3.5 was the first release in a long time. not nearly as frequently
>>updated as redhat, suse, or debian what version was before 3.5? 3.3?
>>and what kernel did that have? not to mention if its your first time
>>using linux slak doesnt exactly make it nice and easy. upgrading? hmm
>>not really. i ran slak before i ran redhat and it was a fine distro...
>>i just dont see a lot of good things happening with it now...
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