On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Mel Boyce wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:09:06 +1200
> From: Mel Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Linux Newbie List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: just wondering...
>
> The whole thing is getting a bit long to keep re'ing it. I don't want a
> distro flame war to start here -- that's not what I wanted at all. I've
> heard all sorts of good and bad things about all distros. I do agree that
> more newbies probably use RH because Slack is more difficult.
That's maybe why certain people call it Hackerware :)
> My intention
> was to ascertain whether or not anyone on the list was using slack -- coz if
> I have a problem, it may be slack only and if only everyone else is using RH
> then there would be no point posting...
That's maybe a bit to extreme, because not everything is different between
two distributions.
> Anyway -- thanks alot for all the responses I got from "just wondering...",
> I hope I haven't moved anyone away from their RHs (hehe). Incidentally, the
> only reason I started using Slackware was its hard to find anyone in NZ
> selling it, so I sucked it off Sunsite. Now I've completely gunned Windoze
> and loving it.
Instead of downloading from Sunsite, try a mirror thats closer to you.
That way you will get a faster download and you don't make sunsite get
overloaded. ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/MIRROR I think...
Karel Bemelmans
Narfum Inc.
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Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be
very selective about who it decides to make friends with...
