[ale] Favorite distros

[rhiannen]

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.)

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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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