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

[Geoffrey]

Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== 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.

Must have been a long time ago.  Virtually all dists. will permit such 
an installation.  Slackware still is not for the newcomer to Linux.  As 
I noted earlier, it can't be beat for older architecture and/or small 
installation footprint.



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