Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To   : Arelor
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Feb 18 2025 19:54:41

-=> Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ar>   Re: Re: What's Your Go-to OS
 Ar>   By: Gamgee to neoshock on Sun Feb 16 2025 07:09 pm

 > Slackware, for the win.

 Ar> Slackware is cool because it is one of the few Linux distributions that
 Ar> works as a general purpose solution without having all its management
 Ar> tools be utter bullshit :-)

Agreed!

 Ar> I wish their release engineering was better. I think if it was, I would
 Ar> not have jumped to the BSDs myself.

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 
that kernel (ver 6.12.6) worked fine.  Yes, I know there are ways to 
leverage a 6.x kernel into an old 15.0 system, but that can break all 
sorts of other stuff.  The BBS is operating fine on -current now and 
I'll leave it like that until 15.1 comes out.  Hopefully in the next 6 
months or so.  Anyway...  



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