installfest distros

[Steve A]

On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:47:36PM -0400 or thereabouts, Allen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Hmm - I notice a slight Debian bias in the above.  :-)
> 
> Pro: An all Debian derived installfest will make support options
> simpler for those helping out.
> Con: Someone like me, who has never used Debian outside of booting
> Knoppix (and it's relatives) from CDROM, will be a little handicapped in
> some aspects of the install (although I suspect that most questions /
> challenges will be fairly generic).
> 
> So, at the risk of starting a distro war (skirmish ?), might I humbly
> suggest Slackware as an alternate distro. My thoughts here (besides the
> fact that there are five machines around my desk running Slackware 9.? 
> thru 10.1) is that there may be some in attendance that are fairly
> adept at these computer things, want to learn about this Line-Ux they've
> been hearing about, and would like a more "hands on/learning" oriented
> distribution.


Slack is hardly a novice friendly distro. I think distros like Libranet/Ubuntu and
SuSE, Mandrake are probably better choices, FWIW. 

I personally would think Libranet the primo choice since it's a Canadian distro,
as is easy to use for those used to Windoze.

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