Rich-
Thanks for the comments. I came up the same route with Red Hat,
Mandrake, SUSE, Slackware and a dozen others along the way. But
currently recommend MINT to newbies since it is hassle-free to install
and update, looks a lot like windows (yea I know...) and meets the needs
of almost everyone at that end of the learning curve. Their needs are
simple and straightforward.
I still miss the command line days of MSDOS and LDOS so relate to those
who prefer it in Linux. But the overwhelming percent of Linux users are
probably looking for the simplest and most effective way to get their
job done with the least amount of hassle. Now that there is lots of
relevant high-volume end user software available IMHO that's the only
way Linux will accelerate its acceptance...
Best ... Dave.
On 5/12/2018 5:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2018, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote:
QUESTION: What is so unique about some of the other old major Linux
lines
that make them so important to some users? Or is is mostly a matter of
habit and not wanting to change?
Dave,
Starting in 1997 I ran Red Hat 4.0 through 7.0 but tired of the upgrade
dependencies hassles. In 2003 I switched to Slackware-8.0 and have no
need
nor interest in changing. There are many reasons for my decision. Some of
them are:
- Stays way back from the bleeding edge for all system components,
including the kernel.
- Provides complete, unmodified kernels; no distribution-specific
tweaks.
- All tool and application packages are complete. That is, there is no
separate 'dev' package with header files and whatever else not
included
in the base package.
- Runs on everything from Atom processors to IBM S/90 mainframes (which
affects me at only the desktop/portable level). Supports both 32- and
64-bit processors.
- Can be installed on servers without the X Window System.
- The distribution is complete as an operating system and hundreds of
additional files are available from www.slackbuilds.org all in the
same
tarball format as the files on the distribution DVD.
- Great support on linuxquestions.org.
- Just works(TM), and easy to use for those of us who favor a CLI
over a
GUI.
HTH,
Rich
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