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In article <77c5cbfa.0307291120.3ea67f20@posting.google.com >, marsques wrote:
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> But ma point is still that slackware is not for newbies.

s/(newbies)/clueless $1/g;

and I'll agree with you. Slackware was my second distro--I tried
RedHat (in 1996), but it was too hard because you had to do everything
RedHat's way or risk breaking things. Slackware is nice and standard.

Of course, now that I have more of a clue, I can risk not using RH's
tools on a RH system, because I know how to do it. IOW, my Slackware
experience transferred to other distros (even other un*xes--I admin'd
a Solaris box once, and now admin two SGI's and a handful of OS X
boxes). Would RedHat experience transfer to HP-UX? Not bloody
likely.

> .. give a
> Redhat or Suse CD to an average Windows user or even an exprienced
> windows user with no knowledge of linux... they'd be more succesfull
> in installing redhat and suse and running it than with slackware...

That's fine, as long as they stop running Windows!

My point is that distributions have their own target audiences. RedHat
targets users who want an environment very similar to Windows.
Slackware doesn't target that audience. Is that really a problem?

- --keith

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