Bill D'Anjou wrote:
Just curious why Debian isn't one of your preferred distro's
Bill
I prefer Slackware, but I also look after CentOS and FreeBSD machines.
Probably about 50 or 60 in all.
Regards,
Rick
Well I do run Ubuntu on the laptop, does that count ?
I was never a fan of rpm or apt-get distros. I always found some
incompatibility with something. At least with Slackware I can get the
source and compile my own, which I have found, doesn't always happen on
RPM, apt-get or FreeBSD systems.
I also found that Debian tended to be a little slow to update to newer
releases, at least in the past, and that just didn't work for me either.
One of my friends is an avid Debian user and I believe a package
maintainer for some package or another. Nothing against it, just didn't
float my boat.
I'm old school though. I was the first HP-UX 9000 admin in Canada and
I've used Slack since before 0.92 Linux kernel. I used to have code in
the kernel (Adaptec 1450 SCSI driver if I remember correctly) as well
and from that I just prefer to be able to compile from source and have
it "work".
My partner is a hardcore Fbsd fan and he hates it when he needs to
install Linux (Slackware always) to run some app correctly, Asterisk
springs to mind as a good example, as well as some more esoteric GIS
(mapping) apps.
Regards,
Rick
