[ale] The rest of Redhat - FREE HAT!!! FREE HAT!!!

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sat Feb 8 18:11:23 EST 2003


I'm primarily a RedHat geek these days. There are a few they do that I
just like (RHN for one!). But if you REALLY want to learn Linux,
Jonathan is very correct when he refers people to Slackware. The view
under the hood of a Slackware box is very well lit up and clean. 

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 23:16, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> 
> > I have a 60 GB drive that I plan to install several OSes on (and finally build
> > Gentoo from scratch) so that I can learn as much as I did today (big
> > eye-opener that Linux is not just RedHat or an outdated Caldera CD).
> 
> No, Linux is not just RH. You really wanna know what Linux is? Really?
> Here it comes...
> 
> Slackware, the first real Linux distribution...and the way things are
> going, probably the last. Get it? Good, now get it. Slackware. Everyone
> else is just pretending.
> 
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> Jonathan Rickman
> X Corps Security
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