Re: Considering a distro switch.

On Mar 24, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Devon Holcombe wrote:

>> Matt King
>
>> Why are you switching?
>
> The main reason I am considering switching is ease of maintenance and
> updates for the noncritical portions of the system. Critical portions 
> will
> still need more attention and maintenance/compilation by hand of 
> course.
> Debian also seems to have more available documentation and a more 
> active
> user community. That's not to say there aren't a lot of good people out
> there running Slackware, they just tend to be more closeted and less
> active(not sure if that's because it runs so well or....more likely 
> they are
> just a more self reliant type user as Slackware requires so less 
> active...).
> That said Debian is still reasonably fast and much like Slackware does 
> not
> have a lot of nonstandard modifications so far as I can tell and any 
> that it
> does have are Free and open to use elsewhere should I end up a user on
> another *nix OS that I have no admin control over.

I was (probably still am) an avid Slack fan.  The reason I like it is 
for the reasons you said:  it doesn't have a lot of nonstandard mods 
and it is less bleeding edge.  For a server, Slack is awesome.  For a 
workstation, it's kind of a pain since you want to be more bleeding 
edge when you're using X and such.

Since Slack 8.1, I have switched to FreeBSD on the server and Debian 
unstable on a workstation of mine.  But I still love Slack.  It's a 
great simplistic distro that uses the KISS principle.

Matt