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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch |
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Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:34:18 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Córdova Avila <address@hidden> writes:
Gustavo> What [Messr. Wilcox wants] is Slackware.
I agree.
Gustavo> The configuration and initialization scripts are very
Gustavo> BSD-like, clean, everything works out-of-the-box
Gustavo> beautifully.
Upgrades used to be another matter, which is why I switched from
Slackware to Debian (truth-in-advertising warning: in '96 or '97). In
general, I found that Slack was very nice until I wanted to ask it to
track the configuration of my system, and then it gave little help.
If you've got one system to care for, and you mostly care only that
the current state of that system work, and you're of the opinion that
you'd really like to be building everything from scratch (including
deciding what configure flags to use) but that's a little too time
consuming, Slackware gave you exactly that back when I (reluctantly)
gave it up, and from all I hear from Slackware-using colleagues, it
still does.
Today I would probably use NetBSD instead of Slackware, though, as it
has more of the same than Slackware even. But Linuces still do tend
to have more applications available than the *BSDs, and you should
make sure what you need is available there.
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, Andrew Wilcox, 2004/11/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, John A Meinel, 2004/11/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, Jan-Benedict Glaw, 2004/11/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, Gergely Nagy, 2004/11/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, Karel Gardas, 2004/11/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/11/21
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, Samuel Tardieu, 2004/11/21
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, Anand Kumria, 2004/11/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch, Gustavo Córdova Avila, 2004/11/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Please recommend a simple open source Unix for arch,
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