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I never read War and Peace. I'm w1k0 -- not W1ko. Cheers! |
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Ahh, but you knew I was replying to you ;) and that's the important part. Further: 1) I seem to be getting more lysdexic with age, and user names with letters+numbers mixed, don't help. 2) I usually capitalize proper names-- er, proper user names in this case. No offense intended, w1k0. Sasha |
Its not if not Slack. I can't ever imagine how things would be if I never used Slackware. Still, I wouldn't mind using something else to supplement Slackware. So I go for the BSD (FreeBSD). I also tried my luck with both flavors of Solaris, sorry Slowlaris. I was not impressed.
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My first Linux was Red Hat. Since it started to evolve into the bad direction I decided to try Debian and Slackware to choose the best system for my purposes. I started with Slackware and it was the love from the first sight. I use it for nine years. In the meantime I suffered from some hacker's attack (black hat) so I changed the system for a few weeks. First I tried to use Ubuntu for three days and then I used Debian for about one month. I wasn't satisfied with any of these systems. At the beginning of my adventure with Open Source Software I tried for a few days FreeBSD. I don't remember anything but the affection of sympathy for that system. When I wrote an article about Gentoo I used it for about two weeks. It was interesting but not stunning. I haven't any experience with Arch Linux nor LFS. To recapitulate: I think that my second choice Open Source system would be some BSD. I looked on the top 100 DistroWatch.com list and I found six BSD systems: 13 FreeBSD 20 PC-BSD 55 OpenBSD 58 DesktopBSD 68 NetBSD 86 BSDanywhere FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD are old-timer systems -- three remaining are nouveau riches. I voted for BSDs and I started to download FreeBSD. I'm just curious how it looks now. |
Ubuntu or Windows 7.
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I've used Linux/Unix for a little over 7 years. I started Linux with Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, then went to Red Hat 9. I've used most of the BSDs. I've tried Ubuntu (hated it), Debian, Mandrake, Fedora, etc. I started using Slackware about 5 years ago with 10.0 and I've never looked back. :) |
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It really depends on what purpose the machine I am installing the os onto serves. I still like openbsd over linux for traffic shaping and firewalls, but I would never use it for a desktop... I prefer slackware for desktops and most enterprise servers, just not firewalls.
I find most of the "what's your favorite" (or in this case second favorite) polls to be rather meaningless, as they, in general, seek some kind of cart blanche one solution fits all solution, which doesn' t exist in practice. There's not an elixir linux, or a holy grail of scripting languages, or a best ide, etc., etc., etc... there's only gnu-emacs, and it runs on everything. |
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Does BSD licensing bother you? As an end-user it shouldn't matter, but jut think from a developer's point of view. I'm just asking out of curiosity, personally I don't use BSD anymore.
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If I couldn't use Slack anymore I think I'd dust off my old K6-233 and run DOS6.22. If I *need* more than that I could wait until I get to work.
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If I had to use something other then slackware, I'd perhaps go with slamd or bluewhite :P If no slackwareish OS was available at all, I think I would have to go with kubuntu or fedora. No particular reason, but I don't really have the time to learn a new KISS OS at the moment, so I would go for something I know a little. |
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Naturally, my answer would be Slackware, either 32 or 64 bit. ;) LOL... However, I do realize the true intention of your question. Honestly, I wouldn't consider using ANY Linux alternatives to BW64/Slackware. I'd probably move to DragonFly BSD as my primary operating system. |
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