Mmm, good idea. Some sort of marriage ceremony between the user and Slackware CDs/DVD. "Do you, name, promise to love, honour, and obey this distro...etc."

Hi,
This happens to be the Slackware forum so what do you expect?
The forum is active because of the varied participants that do use Slackware. Even though there are some who inter mix that don't understand nor get the Slackware way.

That nightmare was triggered by *buntu with the knights of the octagon coming to the rescue. We here at LQ and the Slackware forum participate to assist others with their endeavors with the best GNU/Linux.

You don't have to read nor participate in the Slackware forum since there are other sub forums here on LQ. Why bitch?

I think it is the other way around, a bit like in the student association...
Everybody was allowed to join, but the active members were taught to be exemplary members of the association.

It'd be cool if you could reverse-engineer the do-you-love-slackware test, tough.

Brian, I always enjoy your sense of humor.
Maybe more like an engagement party. Marriage sounds so permanent? Don't people get tired of Slackware sometimes?
(I'm extremely busy counting my enemies on this forum)

First we take 'LinuxQuestions'... Then we take Berlin!

One could always try.

Thanks. I used to have a razor-sharp wit, but nowadays sometimes it wouldn't cut butter.

Ja, Deutschland über Alles!!! lol!!!

Oh come now Brian, you're needlessly being quite hard on yourself. After all, you British are renowned for your dry humor, and razor sharp wit, no matter the age. Thats what I like the most about you guys, especially all your great t.v comedies and such . I'm sure the many years you have spent on this forum has greatly sharpened your wit, since you have always had one of the greatest posts, at least in my opinion .


Errm,.. Das boot?

Has anyone who used freebsd can tell me if it is better than linux? I have heard that freebsd has better uptimes ,the ports system is better than other package management systems and that freebsd is faster than linux.

I can't say anything about freebsd but from time to time I have lookecd a pc-bsd which is based on free bsd. As a desktop/workstation I was impressed enough to consider it quite suitable for one of those situations where someone wanted an older box set up to use for the basics. Just install and walk away without much concern about anything going wrong. I wasn't that interested for my own use since I like to tinker around but I didn't want to bother learning how to do it in bsd. I note today that the latest version running on freebsd 7.2-pre is sporting kde-4.2.2

Try it for yourself. Only you can answer that question. 'better' is subjective.

I think some prefer say OpenBSD for security on servers....I've only toyed around with it and never got very involved. For desktop use, I dont' think it will take you near as far as say, Slack.

Better is very subjective to what you need. FreeBSD is wonderful and its ports system is unmatched and yes its uptime is probably unrivaled.

You can have endless discussions about *BSD being better than Linux or the other way around. There are similarities and differences.

In *my opinion*, Linux is more up-to-date with drivers for newer hardware than *BSD.
*BSD _might_ be a more stable solution for servers.

I have used FreeBSD in the past (since the old days of Walnut Creek) and still have it installed in a virtual machine so that I can check compatibility with programs once in a while.

But I prefer Linux / Slackware, somehow i find it more "open" to me.