Re: CHAT: Summary, web based mailinglist archives
From: | Charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Monday, October 25, 1999, 23:09 |
Ed Heil wrote:
>
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> >
> > I'd advise you to stay clear of Suse - it tries to be clever, instead of
> > defering to the sysadmin. When the next Slackware comes out, I'll be
> > returning to it.
>
> I cut my teeth on Slackware myself. I'm kind of back out of the
> Linux thing after the old weird PC I bought (with no documentation)
> utterly failed to play nice with Linux, but if I got back into it,
> it'd be fun to go to Slackware again. So is the newer Slackware good
> and usable?
I'm sure it is, but RedHat installs in 7 minutes (I walk away
while it grinds transferring stuff from cdrom to disk).
I just bought the very latest, version 6.1 (?) and am about
to upgrade from 5.2 ... KDE, Netscape, Star Office included, $19.95.