Ian > "Slackware, on the other hand, is nothing but simple tarballs that
force you to learn how things really work."
Might have to give that a try on my home machine. I was on the airplane
reading a Linux admin book when the guy next to me introduced himself as a
SysAdm for Dish Network. We talked distros and such for an hour. He
suggested Debian and/or Gentoo. Gentoo appears to support SATA, while
Debian doesn't. Thus my interest in Gentoo.
SuSE 9.1 was able to install on SATA, but wouldn't boot until I set the BIOS
for Legacy. Odd... Booting from the CD, it saw both SATA drive just fine
and formatted them fine.
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Ian Blenke
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 10:26 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Actual Tech Post - My new server
Ken Elliott wrote:
>Good advice, but I'm thinking of trying Debian and Gentoo for the
>learning experience. I've time to install both and I've heard that if
>you take the time to get Gentoo running, you learn an awful lot about
>Linux. By backup plan is to install SuSE 9.0 (have it) or 9.1 (buy it).
>
>
Actually, I would argue that Slackware is the "best" way to learn how Linux
really works.
Gentoo's packaging and init scripts are quite different than many of the
mainstream Linuxes, and not something I would recommend to a newbie. For a
seasoned user or admin, you can't beat the ease of keeping a system on the
bleeding edge.
Slackware, on the other hand, is nothing but simple tarballs that force you
to learn how things really work. It also hasn't changed in structure over
the past decade. SLS/Slackware are where I started out, and I would
recommend it to a newbie in a heartbeat if they really want to learn Linux.
Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to maintain a disparate network of
slackware boxen (Debian is simply the best for me), but it does force
newbies to address how things work behind the scenes that a modern distro
like SuSE (the only RPM based distro I would ever recommend to
anyone) would potentially hide from a user.
The right tool for the job. This is how I see it anyway.
- Ian
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