[Am-info] Testing the Best of Linux : 4:22 PM EST Fri., July 26, 2002

[Eric Mathew Hopper]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:38:29PM -0400, Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.08.01 01:22 AM, Fred A. Miller typed: ============
> 
> >We 
> >relegate Slackware to the bottom of the heap, because it requires incredible 
> >patience."
> 
>    This may explain why my first expereience with Linux was a bad one... 
> My premier attempt was with a cheapbytes.com CD of Slackware, being 
> installed on an AMD 486/80 with 16MB RAM. Oh well...

	Slackware is by no means a newbie distribution.  I wouldn't even
use Slackware.  I'm sure I could figure it all out, but why would I want
to take the time when other distributions work fine for what I want?

	The perennial ugly beast of the Linux community...  The belief
that just because all the fiddly details are possible to learn, you are
morally obligated to do so, and stupid (the worst moral sin) if you
don't.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."  --- Thomas Jefferson
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."  -- Mark Twain
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