Red Hat was acquired by IBM, not Oracle. A slightly different corporate overlord. Given that they drastically curtailed the CentOS project not long afterward, still a cause for concern.
Luther On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 8:37 AM Emery Rudolph <erudo...@umd.edu> wrote: > 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. -- Luther Richard Clark Jr. OITC Help Desk Coordinator/Engineer Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center University of Maryland 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.
