09-25-2008
Hi raidzero,
I am impressed by your Linux record.
Unfortunately, I am not that patient to get each and every device on my commodity hardware running.
Most of the times I am quite content to get a basic Unix-like OS on my private HW running that behaves and feels similar to the Unix boxes I am preoccupied with at work.
Also, usually don't make much use of X and DEs and stuff like that (never cared about Compiz). A frugal shell prompt is most I need.
So next time I am despairing over some misbehaving wlan chipset, sound or video card etc. I think I should call for your advice.
Btw, I also started my Linux experience with Slackware.
That was during my time at uni, and the main motive for me why I bothered about Linux at all, was to get a free Fortran compiler to do my study chores (I am an engineer/naval architect but not working in this field anymore).
This was at the time when the distro was meant to be copied onto a set of 20-30 floppy disks (I think even today Slackware's package section partitioning gives evidence of this history), and I was totally uninitiated and was asking myself what the heck do they mean by mounting etc.
Recently during a Linux conference I passed by a booth of the Arch folks and grabbed one of their CDs they were distributing there.
Back home I gave it a try and really liked this distro's approach.
It also brought back memories of my first Slackware experience.
Last edited by buffoonix; 09-25-2008 at 09:39 AM..
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ubuntu-distro-info - provides information about Ubuntu's distributions
SYNOPSIS
ubuntu-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
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debian-distro-info(1), distro-info(1)
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