Seen on a bumper sticker/t-shirt/whatever: "Slackware: the best that 1995 has to offer."
-- Brian C. Merrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, David Zakar wrote: > Red Hat 1.0 was actually released in October of '94. It didn't really > resemble the Red Hat of today very much ;-). Didn't even have RPM until > the next year! > > <cheapshot>Although I guess, unlike some inferior distros, they actually > bothered to use a package manager. I heard some distros are still stuck > back in 94 on that score...</cheapshot> > > -DMZ > > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:26 -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > > Back when I started, there weren't as many choices. Slackware was one of > > the main distros, in fact I don't recall any other distros that were > > available back then (1994?). Maybe Debian. > > > > It works well, so I stick with it. > > > > Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Just out of curiosity, and as a newbie, why did you pick Slackware? > > > > > > Russ M > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, J. Milgram wrote: > > > > > > > Walmart has a pretty cheap laptop based on a 1.2 Mhz C3, and it would > > > > seem to fit the bill, and I'm tempted. > > > > > > > > $600, 512 Mb RAM, DVD/CDROM, ethernet & wireless. > > > > http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3595030 > > > > > > > > But have been reading some slightly negative things about the chip on > > > > the web (slower than one would expect, won't handle Pentium-optimized > > > > binaries). Anyone have any experience to share on this? > > > > > > > > The machine comes with Lindows so at least there's hope (I'd scrap it > > > > though, and install Slackware). > > > > > > > > Judah > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > Russ Main > > > >
