-=> Eric Renfro wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 DC> I use only Linux, other than a work laptop that I'm required to
 DC> run Win10 on. A little past the 20 year point too. First ever
 DC> install was Slackware (or maybe SLS, can't remember) from
 DC> floppies... Eventually Redhat when it was still free, then
 DC> Mandrake for a while. Back to Slackware around 2002 or so, and
 DC> been there ever since. I do play around with other distros and am
 DC> familiar with most of them, but Slackware remains my primary (on a
 DC> Lenovo laptop). I also have a few RPi's doing various things,
 DC> mostly running stock Raspbian. The BBS runs on a seperate small
 DC> form factor Dell, also running Slackware.

 ER> Heh. I've actually turned down working for companies, because I
 ER> always ask one question during an interview. "Will I ever be
 ER> required to run, operate, configure, manage, or even so much as
 ER> touch a Windows Desktop, or Windows Server" And "Can I get an
 ER> actual Linux oriented Workstation?" And I don't mean a PC with
 ER> Linux on it, I mean an actual workstation. 

Hehe, nice, unless...... it means you don't get the job.  LOL

 ER> Slackware never really left me with good feelings. I don't like
 ER> the minimalistic approach to it, especially the, still lacking,
 ER> support for Linux-PAM. And the literal dictatorialship of Patrick
 ER> Volkerding over Slackware is not too intriguing to me either. I
 ER> respect the distro, being one of the earlier distros out there
 ER> and still being maintained to this day, but that's about where it
 ER> ends.. For me anyway.

Well, yes, it doesn't have many of the flashy GUI-configgy things 
that are common nowadays, but once you know your way around it's 
just as easy.  Patrick calls himself a "benevolent dictator".  :-)  
As far as I know, it is *THE* oldest surviving distro today.

 ER> But, the good thing about Linux is freedom to choose whatever you
 ER> want to use, and appreciate it for what it is, and does for you
 ER> what you want of it. 

Indeed.  The essence of Linux, right there.



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