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In article <m5l%a.25025$vo2.1228@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink .net>, AverageJoe wrote:

> This is not a troll.

Claims of "this is not a troll" are usually directly proportional
to the subsequent material being a troll.

> The problem is Slackware being Oldest distro people (rightly or wrongly)
> expect more from old time Slackware users . People expect old time
> Slackware users to have more info about distro variations.

I'd think that new-time Slackware users would have more info about
distro variations. Up until last year, I hadn't touched a RedHat
derivative in six years. I still struggle with the many screwy
oddities of RedHat. I'm sure others in this newsgroup are in a
similar situation.

> OTOH Slackware has got the reputation of most simple and UNIX like linux
> distro (rightly or wrongly again), does this allow the users to see
> digressions of the other distors more clearly?

Not if we don't use the other distros!

> Logically it should. Once you have a Standard it should be easier to spot
> digressions/variations in other distros.

One needs to be looking to be able to spot anything. And, for better
or for worse, RH is currently the de facto standard in linux. So
RH users should be able to spot variations in Slackware. (Fat chance
of that, though!)

> Well unless one (old time Slackware user) has not looked at other distros
> closely enough maybe. Maybe Slackware newbies newcomers have wrong
> expectations from Old timers.

I would say that RedHat newbies have inaccurate expectations from
Slackware old-timers. In general, things work more or less the
same between distros--it's all linux, after all. But the stylistic
differences are significant enough that asking about, say, compiling
a kernel in RH in a Slackware newsgroup is like a hosehead American
trying to watch a movie with really strong Irish accents--much
understanding is lost, even though the American and the Irish both
speak (more or less) the same language.

- --keith

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