Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 10:41 am

  Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
  By: Gamgee to DaiTengu on Thu Jun 06 2024 11:14 am

 Ga> Cool, and an interesting mix there.  Quite different.  I was once a fan of
 Ga> the Redhat heritage, even ran Redhat for a short while before it went
 Ga> commercial, and then Mandrake after that (still RPM package management). I

I tried Mandrake years ago (maybe around 2001 or 2002), and one thing I ran into was that it worked well on my PC in one version, but when I tried to install the next version, some things (such as its graphics hardware detection for X) wasn't working well anymore, etc..  I had seen that with some Linux distros back then, where one version would work well but the next version wouldn't.  It was odd, as it was like things would sometimes regress with newer versions.

 Ga> guess I've never tried CentOS, but have installed Fedora a few times, but
 Ga> found it too Gnome-focused.  I actually liked Gnome back in the early days
 Ga> with RH and Mandrake, but it's evolved into.... something I don't like any
 Ga> more.  Finally settled on Slackware (w/ XFCE desktop) and been there ever
 Ga> since.

I also liked earlier versions of Gnome, and I don't like the newer versions (which is one reason I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu, as I recall it using a recent version of Gnome by default).

 Ga> Haha, yes I have tried Gentoo also, LONG ago, and while fun for a while,
 Ga> was too much work.  Good way to learn about Linux, though.

Yep, I used Gentoo for a while on a laptop, around 2004.  I had it configured to build all packages, and things like XFree86 and OpenOffice would take hours to build (I'd leave it overnight to install those).

Nightfox

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