On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> This brings up a related question: what criteria do you (collectively, >> not just Marvin) use in selecting a distribution? Does the choice depend >> on the system being used personally compared with professionally (knowing, >> supporting, and recommending distributions?) > > Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. Most everyone follows > Paul's line of thinking to a greater or lesser degree. > > I originally picked Red Hat (in 1996) because it was recommended by a > Powell's Tech Book Store salesman as locally more popular than was Slackware > at the time. I stuck with that from 4.0 through 7.3 when I switched to > Slackware for the stability, upgrade ease (which has deteriorated somewhat > in the last few releases), and being far enough back from the bleeding edge > that I didn't need to pay a lot of attention to it. > > On my wife's laptops I replaced Slackware with Xubuntu only because the > latter more easily recognized the ancient hardware and had everything > working. While I don't particularly like having to be familiar with two > distributions, it's working OK here. > > I'm still undecided on whether to install the 64-bit version of > Slackware-13.0 on my AMD Athlon X2 server/workstation. I don't know that it > buys me anything of value (to me) for such a small network, and it would > probably be different from the 32-bit version on my notebook. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
You can do side by side installs on Slackware Rich. I'll need to find the link I was reading on how to do it. As far as KDE goes .. never been a huge fan. I've been using XFCE for as long as I can remember and abandoned Gnome long before Pat killed it from inclusion in the project. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
