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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.08.01 02:13 PM, Eric Mathew Hopper typed: ============

>	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.

    I started with that because a friend told me it would run along with 
DOS/Windows without having to partition the drive. At this point in time 
I can't recall why I ever thought that was a good thing.


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