Well, I started with Slackware back in '95 because it came free with a very big book (Que Special Edition Using Linux 1st ed.)
I've stuck with it ever since having looked at RedHat because Slackware is relatively easy to set up (the set up program _is_ good) and very easy to reconfigure/frob with onece you've got it up and running.
Being a cantankerous old git I am very suspicious of RedHat's new-fangled (in those days).rpm packages and it's very strange package manager. I prefer.tgz
In my experience, rpm's are a bit cumbersome (I think they expect to find dynamic libraires in certain [redhat-default?] directories instead of just letting ld get on with it).
I like the way the packages in Slackware are split up into categories, there are loads of HOWTO's etc, you get many window managers, Gnome, KDE nowadays, many apps etc.
The versions of gcc supplied and the dynamic libraries are all pretty rock-solid and mature.
Most of the default configuration files are "right" etc.
The distro just "feels good", it's uncomplicated, it's flexible, it's solid and I find it easy to install and maintain.
Best of all, the GPL'd version (2 CD's) does just about everything you want.
How many of you have made for, or recieved from, your friends tapes containing songs of bands you have not heard before, and as a result gone out and bought albums?
This is surely of benefit to the music industry when radio stations will only play safe, conformist, boring, commercial music.
You're a braver man/woman/sentient being than I. I haven't done vindaloo since I was 18. I stick to the soft stuff now. I just can't handle it anymore.
This just goes to show how the personal computer-buying market has shot itself in the foot repeatedly over the years.
(reminiscence on) When I were a lad I wanted an Amiga or ST but wasn't allowed because, "what use is it if it doesn't run Lotus 1-2-3," said my dad, an IT professional at the time. (reminiscence off)
Over the years this "it must be crap if it isn't IBM compatible becasue that's what everyone else uses, for better or for worse" attutude has prevailed, and here we are looking back to ~1983 when Apple had a machine that was about as powerful as a 386sx with a modern, innovative, easy to use UI over a technically-superior (internally 32-bit but without MMU) architecture arguably a decade ahead of the mass-market.
The lesson : the Great Unwashed (or should that be Unthinking) always screw things up for themselves, and the Market in general.
At least we have a market where competitors and innovators exist, along side a free software movement that cares more about producing powerful, useful tools to get stuff done than to conform to Joe Suit's idea of what the world "should" be.
I'm glad I left the commercial IT industry in 1996.....
What has this "religious" (I use the term advisedly) got to do with slashdot?
We all get stressed from time to time, which I imagine you are at the moment, and that's why you posted what you did. We all get a bee in our bonnets about certain things from time to time.
I will not answer any of your questions, because they all start from false premises and make false assumptions because they are based on a certain brand of fundamentalist chritian biggotry, and besides, they've all been answered before more comprehensively by more eloquent and knowledgeable people that my self.
Please relax, put on some melow music and try to get some sleep. Maybe read a good book.
This is all comletely hypothetical, because it assumes tat both of these (Christian) gods exists. A true athiest (as opposed to one who rejects Jesus) believes that they do not exist at all, let alone not worship them.
Never mind, you guys are obviously American and have been brainwashed into not being capable of free thought.
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Burn coal? Why not extract the binding energy of U-235?
You lucky bastard!!!!
.. an RX7 without a wankel engine!
What is the world coming to?
Well, I started with Slackware back in '95 because it came free with a very big book (Que Special Edition Using Linux 1st ed.)
.rpm packages and it's very strange package manager. I prefer .tgz
I've stuck with it ever since having looked at RedHat because Slackware is relatively easy to set up (the set up program _is_ good) and very easy to reconfigure/frob with onece you've got it up and running.
Being a cantankerous old git I am very suspicious of RedHat's new-fangled (in those days)
In my experience, rpm's are a bit cumbersome (I think they expect to find dynamic libraires in certain [redhat-default?] directories instead of just letting ld get on with it).
I like the way the packages in Slackware are split up into categories, there are loads of HOWTO's etc, you get many window managers, Gnome, KDE nowadays, many apps etc.
The versions of gcc supplied and the dynamic libraries are all pretty rock-solid and mature.
Most of the default configuration files are "right" etc.
The distro just "feels good", it's uncomplicated, it's flexible, it's solid and I find it easy to install and maintain.
Best of all, the GPL'd version (2 CD's) does just about everything you want.
Hilarious!
How tacky!
Incredibly funny!
Good work!
If they were to ban it (which they won't),
what's to stop non-US people developing something similar?
Humility? Self doubt?
Really!
What about Elbonia?
They don't even have electricity there.
Beowulf abacus?
How many of you have made for, or recieved from, your friends tapes containing songs of bands you have not heard before, and as a result gone out and bought albums?
This is surely of benefit to the music industry when radio stations will only play safe, conformist, boring, commercial music.
Call me old-fashioned if you like...
You're a braver man/woman/sentient being than I.
I haven't done vindaloo since I was 18. I stick to the soft stuff now. I just can't handle it anymore.
On looking at the Indian recipe, I was disappointed to see that it was not chicken tikka jalfrezi.
;-)
... and it doesn't come with a bottle of ice-cold Kingfisher or Cobra.
Never mind
This just goes to show how the personal computer-buying market has shot itself in the foot repeatedly over the years.
(reminiscence on)
When I were a lad I wanted an Amiga or ST but wasn't allowed because, "what use is it if it doesn't run Lotus 1-2-3," said my dad, an IT professional at the time.
(reminiscence off)
Over the years this "it must be crap if it isn't IBM compatible becasue that's what everyone else uses, for better or for worse" attutude has prevailed, and here we are looking back to ~1983 when Apple had a machine that was about as powerful as a 386sx with a modern, innovative, easy to use UI over a technically-superior (internally 32-bit but without MMU) architecture arguably a decade ahead of the mass-market.
The lesson : the Great Unwashed (or should that be Unthinking) always screw things up for themselves, and the Market in general.
At least we have a market where competitors and innovators exist, along side a free software movement that cares more about producing powerful, useful tools to get stuff done than to conform to Joe Suit's idea of what the world "should" be.
I'm glad I left the commercial IT industry in 1996.....
T?he US? Na?vy ?has ?an ob?jection? to Micros~1?
soft?are
C?n they? like wr?te an article using somethin? ?hat works so ?e can re?d wh?t thei? grievance is?
?
Spectrum?
;-)
I was too poor for one of them. I had a ZX81 with a multi-tasking FORTH ROM (ny Skywave Software).
It's still in the cupboard at my parents; house
Naked women!
Everywhere I look - sex! I come to slashdot to get away from it!
I haven't done it since April 1997.
This is like pouring petrol on the fire!
Waaaa!
So, that's what a troll is.
;-)
I always wondered.
Now I've been done!
You live and learn
"Satan" is a Jewish/Christian/Islamic (all related and very similar religions) concept.
To claim that athiests are worshippers of your hypothetical "Satan" is quite preposterous.
http://www.catalaw.com/detox/
I have a question for you, my troubled friend.
What has this "religious" (I use the term advisedly) got to do with slashdot?
We all get stressed from time to time, which I imagine you are at the moment, and that's why you posted what you did. We all get a bee in our bonnets about certain things from time to time.
I will not answer any of your questions, because they all start from false premises and make false assumptions because they are based on a certain brand of fundamentalist chritian biggotry, and besides, they've all been answered before more comprehensively by more eloquent and knowledgeable people that my self.
Please relax, put on some melow music and try to get some sleep. Maybe read a good book.
Em,
Are you on some kind of fruit break?
Please see a doctor, for your own good.
A concerned friend.
This is all comletely hypothetical, because it assumes tat both of these (Christian) gods exists.
A true athiest (as opposed to one who rejects Jesus) believes that they do not exist at all, let alone not worship them.
Never mind, you guys are obviously American and have been brainwashed into not being capable of free thought.
Bad luck.
At least yours runs at all.
Could you please tell me how you set it up? I can't even get X to work. It's low res and completley scrambled up.
I left the party before any of that happened.
I thought the Chinese were capitalists now, albeit in a totalitarian regieme.
Here here!
I passed my 32-month aniversary this month.
I reckon I'd be a prime candidate for a trip to Mars.
;-)
Well, we did all but wipe out the indiginous Americans.
As for setting foot in my country, that's what we have an army, navy and airforce for.
Thanks for that ;-)
The news media tend to be very "selective" about what they report the world over it would seem.