On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:22:24PM +0100, Peter Hunter wrote:
I must admit I have been looking at Slackware. I have a DVD with Slackware 10.1 on it and I've read the write up. It sounds good., I've also got Gentoo 2005.0, so it would be easy to try either of those. I have heard (seen) many members of ALUG talking about Debian and thought that must be the way to go. If all the skilled users are running it then it should be ok. What I don't want (just yet anyway) is a completely 'bare Bone's do everything yourself, distro. I'm not quite upto that yet. But something like Ubuntu or Slackware sounds good.
I run Slackware, I started with RedHat, ran Mandrake for a while and then Suse. I've been with Slackware since 9.1 (or was it 8.1?). I like Slackware because I grew up using Unix (Solaris) and my desktop machine at work is a Sun Solaris box. Slackware is one of the most 'unix alike' Linux distributions and, while it's pretty easy to install and set up, has very little in the way of GUIs to impede you. I found Suse in particular very frustrating in the way it hid everything.