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To: At_The_Ask who wrote (323)	11/21/2002 8:29:18 AM
From: E. Charters	of 484

Slackware is the easiest to install. It is also a lot less arcane than the other distros (BSD scripting for server maintenance is WAY easier. ) and it has fewer bugs. I have some complaints about its distro in some areas, but more complaints about the Hat and Caldera and (yuck) Debian. The Hat will eat about 3.5 billion bytes of your disk with a full install last I checked. Slackware is still about one billion, maybe a bit less. There are far fewer slackware devotees (It was the first full working linux system as far as I know) but that is because few people have common sense. I will admit that the chapeau rouge has far more advanced GUI approach but its GUI is some maze to get all together. I also disagree with the Hat's bleeding edge approach with compilers and such. Simplest is best. At least give slack a try. Slack has a good package manager in pkgtool, which I find A LOT easier to use to install and de-install programs than rpm. (sheesh!) It uses slack-type *.tgz files. One warning is that with some programs it is advised to get the version from the slack site. Slack is not as advanced in libraries and such as the other distros. I do not view this as a disadvantage actually execpt it is frustrating to see some applications people saying that they only distribute or guarantee their software on Red Hat or Solaris. Very narrow of them. Slack is the most Unix-like of all the Linuxes. slackware.com It you were running a server. Run slackware. There is no advantage to running the Hat in that. Program development and stuff. Maybe Debian. Workstation? Hat, Suse. Mandrake I hear is good. Have not tried it. EC<:-}

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