Hello William, Thursday, 07 March 2002, you wrote:
WA> LFS is an excellent way to go through and learn how to bolt together a WA> distro - sorcerer linux (mentioned on /. today because the maintainer can't WA> afford the time to maintain it anymore) does things similarly - if you're WA> not that ambitious yet, a good distro to actually work at is Slackware, WA> which never has really handed things to you on a plate - I cut my teeth on 3.1 ->> 3.4 and it left me with what i consider a good grounding in basic WA> linux. I would agree with that, mostly. I use Slackware on my laptop, and it's nice and lightweight compared to SuSE which I use everywhere else. I find with SuSE that it tries to do too much for you, and you don't really know what's going on sometimes! Slackware forces you to do things yourself, which can be a mixed blessing. The one major down side to slackware is that it doesn't use rpm, but you do get plenty of practice building things from scratch :) Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
