Re: which distribution to use?

[Matthew Stapleton <matthewstapleton@juno.com>]

Incidentally I think I am going to go with Slackware.  I have used it
before and liked it a lot.

Matthew
On Sun, 26 May 2002 11:41:00 +0000 Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>
writes:
> On Sunday 26 May 2002 09:58, Jose Luis Alarcon wrote:
> > --- Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> wrote:
> > >On Friday 24 May 2002 21:40, Matthew Stapleton wrote:
> > >> Say someone, like myself, did not like windows and wanted a 
> more Unix
> > >> type experience or environment.  Would you suggest Debian or 
> Slackware?
> > >> I actually want to try to learn about the system and not just 
> point and
> > >> click.
> > >
> > >Slackware
> >
> >   Debian. ;-).
> 
> I stand by my statement, if one wants to learn how linux works, use 
> 
> slackware, its the only system that allows you to install what "you" 
> want and 
> not what the system wants, try that with all other distro's.
> 
> Try installing debian, redhat, mandrake, suse on a system with low 
> memory.
> Slackware can be installed on an old machine with 8MB, others cant.
> Slackware is operator dependant, that means configure things like X 
> yourself 
> if you want too, most all other distro's do it for you, so you see 
> with those 
> other distro's you "dont" learn linux as good as you do when one 
> uses 
> Slackware period.
> 
> >
> >   Best Regards.
> >
> >   Jose.
> 
> -- 
> Regards Richard
> pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> 
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