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.
... Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
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