Subj : Linux Daily?
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Eric Renfro
Date : Fri Jul 26 2019 02:34:24

  Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Kees van Eeten to Eric Renfro on Thu Jul 25 2019 11:28 am

 ER>> So who here actually uses Linux as their primary OS for their daily
 ER>> use? 

 KV> I do. Started with Yggdrasil, but really started with first SLS and
 KV> then Slackware. So I probably started in 1993/94.
 KV> Somebody at work had downloaded the six or eight SLS floppies.

Wow.. Now THAT's a distro I haven't heard a lot of people use. ;)  I actually
started Linux with SLS, when it was still new. Later went on to Slackware, then
I moved into Yggdrasil, and loved the heck out of it. ;)

 KV> My last MS systems were Vista and XT, that came preinstalled on a Laptops.

That's one of the first things I generally remove, is Windows, from any laptop
I buy, and then I go to Microsoft asking for my refund, because I didn't want
an actual OS on my laptop, but since I had no real choice in the matter....
hehe

 KV> Debian and Raspbian here, with some Ubuntu on Laptops, because of less
 KV> stringent use of propriatory software for drivers.

Nice. I use Raspbian on my RPi 3, which is kind of like the main "HUB" to my
entire home automation system at my house that I've been designing and
engineering. ;)

 KV> It is all Debian based, wich makes you feel at home on all systems.
 KV> Apart from one all mainly run headless, installing distributions, with
 KV> extra emphasis on the user interface, on headless servers, is futile.

Truth be said, I personally never had much actual love of Debian. I like the
simplicity of the package format itself, a .deb is basically a GNU ar
"archive", with two specifically named tarballs inside it. It's really the
debian/* files that annoy me the most about it, and how their repository
structures are so convoluted and not-so-straightforward, at all. 

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