[Klug-general] Roll Call

[MacGyveR]

On Thursday 29 May 2008, Peter Childs wrote:
> 2008/5/28 MacGyveR <macgyver at thedumbterminal.co.uk>:
> > On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Colin McCarthy wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:33 AM, George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > >> Hmm Surgest moving the poll to the website.....
> > > >>
> > > >> Peter.
> > > >
> > > >  good idea
> > >
> > > As requested I have placed the poll on the website.  I have included
> > > as many OS's as possible.
> > > So please go to the website and vote for your Primary OS.
> > >
> > > Go Ubuntu!!!!!! :-) hehehehe
> > >
> > > Colin
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Kent mailing list
> > > Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
> >
> > That's great, but there is no slackware there :-( i'm crying as i type
> > this.....
>
> Slackware was the first Linux version I installed via floppy on an 486SX
> laptop back in 1997.  Even then it was a lot of floppys At that time my
> only network link was the university NT4 network so I downloaded it one
> disk at a time.....
>
> Stopped using it much after that due to it being very clunkey lack of
> package management was a killer. Used Redhat for a while but never really
> liked it. Then switch to Debian although I do use Ubuntu these days mind so
> do half the Debian developers..... and thats great.
>
> Peter

in 1997 there was not that many distros to chose from, slackware's package 
management has got a lot better, so it is not like using LFS any more.

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