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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2016-04-28 11:18:00
subject: Re: here comes the sun (d

-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> -={ Thursday, 28 April 2016, 10:30:38.764213215 +1000 }=-

 MK> Hey Tony!

 TL> My first distro was Yggdrasil(sp?)

 MK> Looks about right.  I believe that was the first linux distribution
 MK> ever. However it was abandoned quite early on and Slackware became the
 MK> oldest still existing Linux distribution.

Yes, it was a loooooong time ago! :)  That distro had some nasty bugs in its
GUI tools, they were practically unusable, so I learned how to do everything by
hand very quickly! :)

 TL> I heavily favour Debian/Raspian.

 MK> For arm processors there really isn't much choice, although I'd
 MK> probably go with slackwarearm and then hack and slash from there.  I
 MK> find EVERY distribution to be far too bloated for this kid and
 MK> slackware tends to be the best platform for hacker types.

I use Debian on x86 as well.  Slackware would probably work well for me too.


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