On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Byron A Jeff wrote:

> You really want to start a religious debate? "Use Slackware..." is often
> fighting words. I've said them a couple of times in my day.

This is really simple. There are a score of chores to do to make a linux 
machine work as you need. There are two options: you pay and someone else 
does the chores, so you can click on pretty buttons and nearly everything 
works (RedHat, Suse, others), or you don garden working garb, cancel all 
social functions for 2-3 weeks and do it with Slackware.

As with everything, slackware will allow you to do non-standard things 
easier (once you know what you're doing), as opposed to the canned 
installations, which will severely limit your options once you want to get 
off the trodden path.

Most other linux distributions fall somewhere in between Slackware and 
RedHat/Suse from this point of view.

Peter
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