playing with ubuntu first time

[Zbigniew Koziol]

On Friday 02 February 2007 18:28, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:

> Yes, Linux is about freedom but it seems pointless to run a distro
> that has a package manager and then not use it. You can have the
> freedom to experiment and still not break your system if you rebuild
> the source packages and install the binary packages that you create.
> If you really want to build stuff from source most of the time and
> see a package manager as a toy, why not use a source based distro
> like Slackware or Gentoo in the first place?

Good point. Next time I will. Perhaps Slackware? That was my first Linux 
distribution I used 10 years ago.. :)

Thanks for comment. 

zb.
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