[ale] good linux

[Michael Smith]

	I was there then......  It was fun sitting on the side of Baxter
Street watching the cars slide down the hill. :)  I, too started out with
Slackware.  I've always liked it but as I have gotten lazy(whoops I mean
older), I started using Redhat.  The one thing I really liked about Slack
was that the doc matched up exactly with the OS.  I used to hate trying to
figure out where Redhat was pulling some of its boot information.  Slackware
seemed to be set up more logically.  My 1 1/2 cents worth......

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph A. Knapka [mailto:jknapka at earthlink.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:40 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] good linux


I started running a built-from-scratch Linux back in '92.
<TOOTHLESS OLD BALD GUY>
That was the year it snowed 20' in Athens, GA and I had to walk
uphill both ways to my office in the AI lab.
</TOOTHLESS>
Since then I've used Slackware, RH, and an early Debian. Slackware
is what I always come back to. I recognize that the auto-guified
setup tools provided by RH and its ilk are good, but they just
drive me up the wall. And I have to say that my single *worst* Linux
installation experience was with Debian - the installer seemed
designed to create confusion. Probably Debian has improved a 
lot since then (I keep hearing raves about apt-get).

-- Joe

P.S. No offence intended to any actual toothless old bald guys.

Stephen Turner wrote:
> 
> what linux distro do you reccomend and why?
> 
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