Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To   : Gamgee
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Feb 19 2025 03:27:07

  Re: Re: What's Your Go-to OS
  By: Gamgee to Arelor on Tue Feb 18 2025 07:54 pm

 > Probably my biggest dislike of Slackware, right there.  A real world
 > example of how it sucks - I recently moved the BBS from an older machine
 > to a new "mini-computer" with modern hardware/UEFI "bios".  Installed
 > Slackware 15.0 on it and it would not start Xwindows.  Eventually I
 > learned that the built-in video (Intel N100 CPU) was not supported by
 > the 3-year-old kernel (ver 5.x.x).  So I installed Slackware-current and

Yeah, if you are running on a desktop you may just as well install Slackware -current and treat it as a rolling distribution these days. Probably not a big deal since -current is very well maintained, but I personally like predictable release cycles.


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