>
> > > > 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.
> >
> My first (and only) distro is Slackware. I have learned much but am still
> having difficulty getting it to where I'm satisfied. It's only limping
> along at the moment.
>
> But I also find a line where I want to have my system up and running so that
> things are working appropriately enough for my wife who does not have unix
> experience. I plan on trying SUSE next to get a system up and running
> quickly. But I plan on taking my time to learn Linux after that.
>
> I don't see any distribution taking away the learning experience if one
> wishes to learn. But some distributions allow a somewhat painless initial
> set up to get started and provide a baseline to start learning from. Red
> Hat might be one exception because of the boot procedure and some strangely
> placed files.
>
> And Slackware can boot from a CD? I'll have to look into that.
>
> Adrian
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>
Along time ago (about a year at least) I read an article about how
slackware's file system wasn't 'standard' , does'posix compatiable' also
dictate the file system?
This was a while ago so slackware might of changed, or the article
wasn't true, I was wondering your thoughts on this.
Another thing I was wondering is some version of sun os have the user mail
files under /var/mail/userid while some distrubations of linux I've seen
have them under /var/spool/mail/userid, is there such a thing as a
standarded file system under *nix?
