On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:12:09 +0000 allan miller alug@sarvasiddhi.ukfsn.org wrote:
Hello
I have just subscribed to the list. My name is Allan Miller.
Welcome
I have been using Linux extensively for the past 4 years now. After trying various distributions I have settled on Slackware. Occasionally I try a new distribution but end up fairly quickly back with Slackware. I like its speed and simplicity of setting up (I used to dislike the others with everything hidden behind gui's).
Fair enough
Because I like fiddling/tuning I can quite easily get lost for hours tweaking things - a bit like a car mechanic who spends hours under the bonnet tuning etc and never takes the car out on the road. And a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Oh yes
Although 99.9% of the time I boot into Linux I still use Windows within a Vmware virtual machine as I use Coreldraw a lot and there is nothing equivalent yet under Linux.
Maybe,
It has been a bit of a solitary life as I don't know anyone else who is using Linux.
Welcome to Alug we are very friendly allthough we do have the occasional tribal split over distributions (I am biased toward the debian gang but work on redhat derivative scientific Linux). I do have a slackware colleage but he is now becoming a debian fan also so I recomend giveing it a try it is maybe a little over automated for you, though it is very productive.
Regards
Owen S