On Fri, 11 May 2018, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote:
QUESTION: What is so unique about some of the other old major Linux lines
that make them so important to some users? Or is is mostly a matter of
habit and not wanting to change?
Dave,
Starting in 1997 I ran Red Hat 4.0 through 7.0 but tired of the upgrade
dependencies hassles. In 2003 I switched to Slackware-8.0 and have no need
nor interest in changing. There are many reasons for my decision. Some of
them are:
- Stays way back from the bleeding edge for all system components,
including the kernel.
- Provides complete, unmodified kernels; no distribution-specific tweaks.
- All tool and application packages are complete. That is, there is no
separate 'dev' package with header files and whatever else not included
in the base package.
- Runs on everything from Atom processors to IBM S/90 mainframes (which
affects me at only the desktop/portable level). Supports both 32- and
64-bit processors.
- Can be installed on servers without the X Window System.
- The distribution is complete as an operating system and hundreds of
additional files are available from www.slackbuilds.org all in the same
tarball format as the files on the distribution DVD.
- Great support on linuxquestions.org.
- Just works(TM), and easy to use for those of us who favor a CLI over a
GUI.
HTH,
Rich
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