gjw49 wrote:

> 
> I've always wanted to try Slackware, but never got around to it... what 
> does it have to recomend it?

Because it is almost as old as Linux!!!  No, seriously, the reason I 
like it is the same as the reason most people like the dist. they use... 
it was the first one I was exposed to.  But it has been around a long 
time, is the first dist. to be widely adopted.  Some say it is the dist. 
for the server boys.

More for the boiler room than the parlour, early versions throw you in 
the deep end, latest versions are getting to be more 'RH' like.

I think most Slackware user even with X will prefer working from the 
command line.

But the biggie is that it is stable, runs on a mix of machines here 
386's up to P200's with v7.x and 8.0, business depends on it and as a 
small ISP, over the last eight years the only problem I have had was the 
loss of a SCSI drive and that was on a Sun Sparc...

Adrian

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