[GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

[Dave Collier-Brown]

I too try to run as close as possible to what my customer runs in
production.  For a long time, that was Fedora, which is effectively an
upstream for Centos. I'm waiting to see what happens in the centos
switch to quasi-continuous.

--dave

On 4/27/22 09:02, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
> On 2022-04-27 12:37 a.m., William Park via talk wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been running Slackware since forever.  It's time to grow up and
>> see the world.  Which distro would you recommend that I move to?
>> Yes, I know it's personal, and reasons will be varied and educational.
>>
>> - Ubuntu -- OK.  I use it at work in VM and in WSL (Windows Subsystem
>> for Linux).  For me, Mint is another flavour, just like Kubuntu,
>> Xubuntu, etc.
>
>
> It can make a lot of sense to run the same at home that you use at
> work, so that you're only tracking one distro's quirks and issues, and
> being that much more effective at work and needing that much less time
> spent debugging issues at home.
>
> I was running Red Hat back when a past job was on that, up until Red
> Hat jumped the shark, then CentOS during a couple of gigs that used
> that, then I decided it was time to dig into Debian just months before
> a job that used that came over the horizon. So now most of my boxes
> run Debian.
>
> Meanwhile I picked up Gentoo back around the time RH was bothering me
> too much to touch on my own time anymore, partly as a technical
> challenge to myself and partly to have the actual source code to
> everything actually downloaded, but that can suck up an awful lot of
> time even as it hones your sysadmin skills!
>
> Anthony
>
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