Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 06:14 pm

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your
 Ni> flavor?
 Ni>   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

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

Yes, I also recall fairly frequent problems with Xwindows and graphics 
cards back in those days.  I liked Mandrake quite a bit and then 
something happened to them and it morphed into something else.  
"Mandriva" maybe?  That's when I moved full time to Slackware, probably 
around 2003.

 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.

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

Yes, it does use the newest Gnome and I also dislike it.  Feels very 
"dumbed down" to me.

 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.

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

Been there, too.  Haha, yeah that stuff was painful.  I used to even 
configure and compile custom kernels (on Slackware), thinking I could 
squeeze out more "performance"...  Maybe it did, and in those days I was 
on fairly weak hardware so it helped, and was a lot of fun actually.  
But also a lot of work, and I don't bother with that any more.



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