Incidentally I think I am going to go with Slackware. I have used it before and liked it a lot.
Matthew On Sun, 26 May 2002 11:41:00 +0000 Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 26 May 2002 09:58, Jose Luis Alarcon wrote: > > --- Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Friday 24 May 2002 21:40, Matthew Stapleton wrote: > > >> Say someone, like myself, did not like windows and wanted a > more Unix > > >> type experience or environment. Would you suggest Debian or > Slackware? > > >> I actually want to try to learn about the system and not just > point and > > >> click. > > > > > >Slackware > > > > Debian. ;-). > > I stand by my statement, if one wants to learn how linux works, use > > slackware, its the only system that allows you to install what "you" > want and > not what the system wants, try that with all other distro's. > > Try installing debian, redhat, mandrake, suse on a system with low > memory. > Slackware can be installed on an old machine with 8MB, others cant. > Slackware is operator dependant, that means configure things like X > yourself > if you want too, most all other distro's do it for you, so you see > with those > other distro's you "dont" learn linux as good as you do when one > uses > Slackware period. > > > > > Best Regards. > > > > Jose. > > -- > Regards Richard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > Matthew Stapleton ........... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
