[wellylug] Distro of choice

[Ian Beardslee]

I was going to mention Slackware, but you say you don't think you are 
there yet?!?

The perfect time to start with slackware - you'll have to get there and 
you will be there before you know it :-)  But seriously it ain't that bad 
- well actually it's pretty good.

It has a name for being difficult to use, but also for living on hardware 
that doesn't have the grunt to deal most of the other distros - OK 
sometimes you have to do a bit of digging - but isn't that part of the fun 
:-)

PS Version 10 RC1 has just been released - GO SLACK!!

-----Original Message-----
From: "Nick Jensen" <spoonfella at hotmail.com>
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:07:25 +1200
Subject: [wellylug] Distro of choice

> OK, here's a topic to get the tongues wagging. I'm looking for a new
> distro 
> to try out, and I'm looking for advice. Basically, I'm a RedHat man -
> we had 
> RedHat 7.3 on the machines I used at uni, and since they handed out
> copies 
> for free that was what I installed at home. Since then I've tended to
> stick 
> with what I know, and therefore my most distro has been Fedora Core 1.
> This 
> suited me quite well because, although I'm not quite a newbie, I have
> to 
> admit that most of the technical topics that pass through this list are
> well 
> over my head. I'm also a windows developer by trade (gotta go where the
> work 
> is, I'm afraid), so the nice GUI is very familiar.
> At home my Linux machine is quite slow (a Frankenstein's monster built
> up 
> from freebies from all over the place), and I would like a distro that 
> doesn't tax it too heavily. I'm about ready to move away from the GUI -
> the 
> first thing I do when I boot up is open a Terminal anyway.
> I've notice during my lurking that we seem to have some die-hard Debian
> fans 
> here, and some Gentoo fans as well. Mandrake certainly sounds appealing
> - if 
> a bit too much like what I already have. And I don't think I'm ready
> for 
> Slackware just yet!
> So tell me - what do you recommend?
> 
>     Nick
>