Well, my first distribution was Slackware. I was a newbie when I started
using it. To me, since you want to read and learn, it is not as hard as
many people say.
According with your email, I will suggest you that if you are not happy
with Slackware try to install another distribution till you find one that
fits with your needs. If you are concerned about updating your distro, you
should try Gentoo or Debian.
Regards
Diego
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:09:54AM +0800, TheExploited wrote:
>
>> Hey there,
>> My name's victor and i'm new to SLUG.I can't attend any
>> meeting
>> though coz i'm from asia:( .I'm 18 yrs old and quite new to the *nix
>> environment. Can i ask you guys whether should i reformat my box and
>> install slackware or RH8.0 . I'm using RH7.2 now though . Not too
>> happy with it though. It's not well organized and all.For example ,
>> you find your programme files everywhere scattered all around.And i
>> hate it when i have to update my software and delete the old files.
>> Regards
>> Victor
>
> "Scattered all around"? They should typically be in either /bin /usr/bin
> /sbin or /usr/sbin. The distinction of which goes where is covered in
> the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) at www.pathname.com. You may
> also put your own scripts and programs in the /usr/local/bin directory,
> which should be empty after a fresh install.
>
> Updating is an inexact science in the Linux world. Some distros do it
> well, and others don't. It has recently been suggested that the
> commercial distros are or will be moving to "subscription" services for
> updates, something Red Hat already has. I've not upgraded Red Hat this
> way, so I don't know how well it works. But ideally, you should simply
> have to tell it to update, without deleting anything.
>
> Slackware is for Real Men (tm). Not to denigrate anyone's testosterone
> level, but it's not really a distro for newbies. For a variety of
> reasons. Red Hat is satisfactory for newbies, and works well for gurus
> as well. Mandrake is probably considered the simplest d and quite new to
the *nix
>> environment. Can i ask you guys whether should i reformat my box and
>> install slackware or RH8.0 . I'm using RH7.2 now though . Not too
>> happy with it though. It's not well organized and all.For example ,
>> you find your programme files everywhere scattered all around.And i
>> hate it when i have to update my software and delete the old files.
>> Regards
>> Victor
>
> "Scattered all around"? They should typically be in either /bin /usr/bin
> /sbin or /usr/sbin. The distinction of which goes where is covered in
> the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) at www.pathname.com. You may
> also put your own scripts and programs in the /usr/local/bin directory,
> which should be empty after a fresh install.
>
> Updating is an inexact science in the Linux world. Some distros do it
> well, and others don't. It has recently been suggested that the
> commercial distros are or will be moving to "subscription" services for
> updates, something Red Hat already has. I've not upgraded Red Hat this
> way, so I don't know how well it works. But ideally, you should simply
> have to tell it to update, without deleting anything.
>
> Slackware is for Real Men (tm). Not to denigrate anyone's testosterone
> level, but it's not really a distro for newbies. For a variety of
> reasons. Red Hat is satisfactory for newbies, and works well for gurus
> as well. Mandrake is probably considered the simplest distro (the
> easiest to use, if you're from a Windows background).
>
> The *nix environment will take some getting used to, if you're from a
> different environment. Give it time.
>
> Paul
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