On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 20:33 +0100, Shawn Tan wrote:
> On Thursday 16 August 2007 19:44:34 Herbert Graf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:34 -0400, Peter Todd wrote:
> > > > Who would have thought there would be a day where installing a new
> > > > device in Linux would be LESS work and bother then Windows?
> > >
> > > I know! I've been using Linux for years now, Debian mainly, which never
> > > had that great a reputation for ease of use. The new Debian Etch release
> > > keeps on surprising me with how much stuff "just works"
> >
> > For the longest time I've been a Redhat/Fedora user, mostly since that's
> > simply what I've used most, but also because that's what we use at work.
> 
> For almost 10 years, I'd always sworn by Slackware. But, I can appreciate how 
> simple life has become since I started using Kubuntu. It even has geda, sdcc, 
> gputils and other useful tools in the _official_ repositories. So, you can 
> get down to doing some useful work immediately.

Hehe, actually the first distro I ever touched was Slackware, ver 3.0 I
think? This was at a time when everything came on floppies, and internet
connections were at the speed of a 9600 or if you're lucky 14.4k modem.
I still remember the install: something like 6 "a" floppies, then
optionally you added the "b" series, the "c" series, or something like
that. VERY good if you knew what you were doing, NOT so good if you were
completely new to Linux and had NO clue what even a "kernel" was.

Not soon after I ordered a CD with Redhat on it from a company called
Cheapbytes (I think it was ver. 5?) and haven't looked at slackware
since. No real reason, Redhat just was more "compatible" with my brain
for some reason! :)

TTYL

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