Yep, I had that same large stack of floppies and it was such an accomplishment to finally arrive at a system that had all of the components you needed, because so much had to be done from the command line and understanding how to dig into the internals of Linux to get everything to compile correctly. Those experiences made us very strong OS folks, but today everything is so much easier. I haven't had to compile a kernel for a very long time and my system runs like a top. I prefer Debian based systems and have been using Linux Mint since it came out. I tried Redhat and Fedora for a while, but once they were acquired by Oracle, I knew it was not going to end well for personal users.
Like everything else, Mint have their glitches, but I have been very pleased with it thus far :-) ---------------- Very Best Regards, Emery Rudolph, MS Director Division of Information Technology erudo...@umd.edu (301) 405-9379 On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 8:28 AM Peter Teuben <teu...@umd.edu> wrote: > I think you have to be nostalgic perhaps. I did indeed learn linux on a 15 > floppy install from slackware in 94, but I've gone to redhat for a while, > and now quite a while I've been using kubuntu. All the different distro's > have good and bad sides. It's funny again that a 15 floppy install on an > i486 takes not a lot longer than a USB key install on a modern i9. > On 2/28/22 08:22, Emery Rudolph wrote: > > Good morning, > > For those who are using Slackware, just wondering if you've considered > using other distros? I learned Linux on Slackware in the early-mid 90's and > grew quite adept at compiling and troubleshooting the OS, but as distros > matured, including package management, I left it behind. Every distro has > features that make them attractive to specific use cases, thus I am not > throwing shade on anyone for using anything that appeals to them, but > rather, I am interested in what features make Slackware an attractive > distro in 2022. > > ---------------- > Very Best Regards, > > Emery Rudolph, MS > > Director > > Division of Information Technology > > erudo...@umd.edu > > (301) 405-9379 > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 9:43 PM Ben Stern <bst...@electromagnetic.net> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 10:23:24AM -0500, Judah Milgram wrote: >> > If anyone (who cares) didn't notice, Slackware 15.0 came out last week. >> >> At 22:22:22 on 2/2/22. :-) >> >> I switched to 15.0 from current and I miss the giddy pace of daily >> updates. >> Current has immediately started breaking things, as promised by its >> nature, >> and I'm happy with 15.0 but it's an adjustment. :-) >> >> Now waiting for SBo to move to 15.0 so I can upgrade all of my SBo >> packages >> trivially. >> >> > If this isn't an occasion for an UMGLUG I don't know what is. Virtual I >> > suppose. >> >> A virtual UMGLUG has not been tried. I am eager to try one. >> >> Ben >> -- >> Ben Stern >> This space intentionally left blank. >> >> You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux User's >> Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this >> list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the message >> signoff UM-LINUX in the body. >> > You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux User's > Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this > list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the message > signoff UM-LINUX in the body. > > You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the message signoff UM-LINUX in the body.
