Hey, 1995 was a good year.
Let's remember that UMLUG itself has its origins in Slackware. It came to
be as the result of a promo deal (from Linux Journal?) that offered cheap
Slackware CDROM's (it was Slack 1.2, I think ... with the 1.1.59 kernel).
We got together a bunch of people and placed a group order. That contact
list formed the seed of this UMLUG mailing list.
Finally ... Slackware does have a package management system, it's really
simple and it works really well, which is why it doesn't excite
masochistic Red Hat enthusiasts :)
</cheapershot>
Seriously: google through the Linux news groups and see how many
frustrated Slack users there are posting, vs. frustrated RH users. My only
gripe is the Gnucash situation, and a few other odds and ends. But even
Gnucash works, once you find the "howto" page :)
Judah
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Brian C Merrell wrote:
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
