[GRLUG] Fellow Slacker

[Godwin]

One of these days I'll try Gentoo.  Justin, a friend of mine here, ran
wild w/ it when I told him it was for "real geeks"...  ;-)  The one
thing I don't like is all the sources it downloads for everything you
compile.  A bit clutter some (sp.) for me.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Lee Forest <lee8oi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Welcome Lee, felow Slacker.  I remember compiling KDE and Gnome on
>> slack like 4 yrs ago...  Man, I still have nightmares.  Switched to
>> Debian and never looked back.  :-)  Glad to have you join in.
>
> Ya I remember those days pretty well myself. Sometimes spending a few
> nights getting all the necessary source packages I needed. I switched
> to Gentoo and never went back to slackware.Although I always kept
> copies for computers without internet. It always was pretty well
> stocked with programs out of the box. And I always recommended it to
> people who really wanna learn linux. It was a valueable learning
> experience for me, everything I know stems from Slackware.  Emerge was
> the first package manager I really tried out tho, and setting up and
> running gentoo was scary at first. But I learned, and became
> comfortable with it. Now I like the debian based distros. I definitly
> would encourage new users to experiment with different distros, and
> find thier ideal one. Debian is definitly one of the few grandfather
> distros that still attract a lot of new users. And Ubuntu is really
> taking debian up another notch in the desktops users field. It has
> been pretty much unbeatable in distrowatch top list.
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