Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To : Arelor
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Feb 18 2025 07:54 pm
-=> 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...
