Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
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> Imho, if you're a newbie, stay away from slackware.
I disagree with this. Slack was my first distro, and I didn't find it
too difficult. Quite the contrary, I had very little trouble with it.
Mind, this was with *no* prior *nix experience. I have and will
continue to recommend Slack as a first distro.
> 90% of the questions in the support channels online are from slackware
> users who don't know linux well enough to be running slack.
Odd, many of the questions I'm seeing on usenet (other than the Slack
specific groups) are about RedHat. Mostly concerning that RPM thingy
they are so proud of. Also, one of the most common complaints I've
heard from disgruntled former Linux attemptee's is regarding "that
damned RPM" not working as advertised.
So the person asking the question is still learning about Linux. There
is nothing wrong with that. We all had to start somewhere. From what
I've seen of Slack, RedHat, SuSE, and Debian I would think Slack and
possibly Debian to be the *best* for a newbie. Less is "hidden" by GUI
tools, the user *learns* more.
> And you missed the BEST part about SuSE -- it has a live CD with a full
> file system and man pages. Much superior to a boot diskette!
As does Slack, last I looked.
All in all, I will stick with Slack and tar.gz's. Seems to have a
higher success rate. And I will continue to recommend Slack over the
others for the reasons I outlined above.
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