[ale] Favorite distros

[Andrew Grimmke]

I used to avoid downloading software if I couldn't find
a binary.  But lately it seems like I have been
compiling everything and am growing to like it.  Makes
me wonder what I was scared of.  

Regarding good distributions, although my primary
desktop runs Red Hat, I have a soft spot for Vector
Linux.  It's great for making a nice linux desktop
machine from old hardware.  I put it on a P75 laptop,
and she runs great.  With a 2.4 kernel even.  

Andrew

On Mon, 26 August 2002, rhiannen wrote:

> 
> Add another vote for Slackware - mainly because of
it's
> "package
> management" or lack thereof.  I prefer a very
granular
> control over my
> OS installation, updates, and the overlaying
> applications; Slackware
> (and OpenBSD) suit me perfectly.   
> 
> As to my "qualifications" to give my
opinion (like I
> ever need any,
> <g>), I've been supporting Windows for what
feels like
> ages (the 3.x
> years), started running Linux on my home units at
about
> Slack4,
> installed/admin'd our OpenBSD firewall using pf before
> we switched it
> out for IPTables, and entertain myself when bored by
> installing and
> trying to break, er, learn more about various OS's on
> spare machines or
> my poor old laptop.  (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, all
> windows flavors,
> OpenLinux, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, BeOS <--very
sweet>,
> & many more than
> I'm forgetting right now.)
> 
> ---- 
> rhia
> knowledge is power - arm yourself
> 
> 
> "Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:
> > 
> > Matthew Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, I don't know much about Slackware at
all, but
> I hope its package
> > > management is a little better than gentoo's
seems
> to be.  I would have
> > > thought that with everyone else having
something to
> handle this that the
> > > gentoo folks would have been able to just
pick up
> one of the good ones.
> > 
> > Slack doesn't have much package management to
speak
> of.
> > It's more of a "tar xf thing.tgz ; cd thing
;
> ./configure
> > ; make ; make install" kind of distro :-)
> > 
> > --
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