[ltp] Slackware on T42?

[Bob Alexander]

Josh Battles wrote:
> I was actually looking into that as well as gentoo and haven't decided which
> way to go as yet.  The reason I thought to to Slackware is because I run that
> on my other 2 computers at home and it's been nothing short of excellent,
> very stable and reliable.  Can the list offer up suggestions between debian
> and/or gentoo?  I've got a 4mb line to my house so bandwidth isn't really an
> issue.
> 
> - Josh

Josh,
risk starting the same old annoying futile "distro" war :)

What follows is my personal opinion based on my personal experience.

AFAIK Gentoo is the most widespread source based distro 
(www.distrowatch.com .. know that site ?). Made for people which loves 
to build everything from the sources eventually tweaking the compilation 
and other things. Gotta have a pretty a lot of free time and love 
watching the compilation of such hulks as X :)

Debian for many of us is a very good distro. The deb packages are almost 
always very very well built, adherence to many standards (FHS etc.) is 
usually strictly enforced. Installing and upgrading is usually a very 
smooth experience. Support is almost overwhelming (debian-user mailing 
list in these days averages around 80-90 emails a day). With 16000 
packages in the distribution it's a reference :)


Slackware: have used it many years ago. Hear nothing but praises but am 
out of synch.

HTH,
Bob