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   -=> Eric Renfro wrote to Dan Clough <=-   
      
    DC> I use only Linux, other than a work laptop that I'm required to   
    DC> run Win10 on. A little past the 20 year point too. First ever   
    DC> install was Slackware (or maybe SLS, can't remember) from   
    DC> floppies... Eventually Redhat when it was still free, then   
    DC> Mandrake for a while. Back to Slackware around 2002 or so, and   
    DC> been there ever since. I do play around with other distros and am   
    DC> familiar with most of them, but Slackware remains my primary (on a   
    DC> Lenovo laptop). I also have a few RPi's doing various things,   
    DC> mostly running stock Raspbian. The BBS runs on a seperate small   
    DC> form factor Dell, also running Slackware.   
      
    ER> Heh. I've actually turned down working for companies, because I   
    ER> always ask one question during an interview. "Will I ever be   
    ER> required to run, operate, configure, manage, or even so much as   
    ER> touch a Windows Desktop, or Windows Server" And "Can I get an   
    ER> actual Linux oriented Workstation?" And I don't mean a PC with   
    ER> Linux on it, I mean an actual workstation. :)   
      
   Hehe, nice, unless...... it means you don't get the job.  LOL   
      
    ER> Slackware never really left me with good feelings. I don't like   
    ER> the minimalistic approach to it, especially the, still lacking,   
    ER> support for Linux-PAM. And the literal dictatorialship of Patrick   
    ER> Volkerding over Slackware is not too intriguing to me either. I   
    ER> respect the distro, being one of the earlier distros out there   
    ER> and still being maintained to this day, but that's about where it   
    ER> ends.. For me anyway.   
      
   Well, yes, it doesn't have many of the flashy GUI-configgy things    
   that are common nowadays, but once you know your way around it's    
   just as easy.  Patrick calls himself a "benevolent dictator".  :-)     
   As far as I know, it is *THE* oldest surviving distro today.   
      
    ER> But, the good thing about Linux is freedom to choose whatever you   
    ER> want to use, and appreciate it for what it is, and does for you   
    ER> what you want of it. :)   
      
   Indeed.  The essence of Linux, right there.   
      
      
      
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