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Another Slackware guy here.
It was my first distro, and I'm glad I chose it for my first. Since there are no fancy GUI tools, I was forced to read man pages and configure things the old fashioned way. Which means I learned a lot pertty quickly.
Now that I feel like I know the basics pretty well, I think I'll go for Gentoo or maybe one of the BSD's.
I wouldn't be Shrekkie if I wouldn't say :
GENTOO !!
:D
use lilo for your boot l oader.
Well crap you only gave me the opportunity to pick one. I have two Hdd in this box and slack and xp on one and suse and 98 on the other. So make it sulack for numero uno then.
cheers
slackware, suse, redhat, fc2, freebsd, openbsd, xp home and pro.. All being used on different machines along with dual booting. Used both lilo and grub, really don't have a preferance. And I just got my free 3 dvd set from suse, so I will be trying the different apps and os's included.
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Originally posted here by CybertecOne
well since im quite comfortable in a RH environment.... would you still recommend going to madrake??
and what about preference of boot loaders, seeing as i WILL have windows and quite possibly a diff linux.. say, slackware and RH with XP. each on their own parition. (same drive though)
Your only choice is slackware or *bsd, gag rules for dual/tri/quad....up to 9 booting http://gag.sourceforge.net/
SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE
SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE SLACKWARE!!!!!!!
Now that I've finished screaming, I feel that using Slackware or Gentoo is a great learning experience. If you want to use Linux as a plug and play replacement for Windows, SuSe or Mandrake is a good choice. However, if you really want to learn the Linux OS, Slack or Gentoo is the way to go.
Cheers,
cgkanchi
thanks guys, youve swayed me over towards slackware to i might have to look into it :)
Cheers
One thing I'd like to add, if you're going to get Slackware, be sure to check out Dropline Gnome