* This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said:
> <quote who="gnudev">
>
> > and generally, are there any major high points of Slack over others?
>
> "Amount of time wasted administering a system" would be a 'high' point.
>
> Slackware is for masochists and people who haven't migrated to a modern
> distribution yet - what is it that attracted you to it?
>
> [ By all means try it, there's no point not being inquisitive, but I've yet
> to see a solid benefit to using Slackware. ]
>
I started out on slackware (as I'm sure many people did) and found it a
good distro in comparison to the commercial unixes available at the
time.
However, things have changed a LOT in these last 8 years, I once read a
quote from one of the head guys at slackware who said that 'Slackware is
a distribution for people that are already running Slackware. If you
are new to linux, use ANY other distro'....
I'm sure that was meant light-heartedly - but many a true word......
I won't recommend any distributions because that will start a holy war.
*cough* debian *cough*...... Who said that?????
Seriously though - if you want the power of slackware in a sane way, you
could do much worse, just make sure you base your choice on an informed
decision (ie - try a few distro's and make your OWN choice)
HTH
Greeno
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