Re: Windows to Linux

 DC> Just for clarification... Slackware is not a rolling release.  Many 
 DC> would consider it the very definition of "stable".  It's also not really 
 DC> a great choice for beginners, since that is sort of the topic of this 
 DC> thread.

While I didn't start with Slackware as my first 'distro' (I started with SLS), 
I still think that if you actually take the time, Slackware would
be a better distro to learn from.  But that's my $0.02.  

That said, a lot of packages are so 'in tune' (for lack of a better word) with 
those package-managers, it is a little more difficult to get stuff
built.  (Recently, tried to install MongoDB on Slackware 15.0...  it
was a pain.  Even with Slackbuilds.org.)

 DC> (long-time and current Slackware user)  ;-)

Ditto here.  

Ed