On 02-12-20 06:12, The Millionaire wrote to Altere <=-
There's like a 100 out there now. Wow, I remember when there was only Ubuntu out there at the time.
Hmm, and also there was Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, Slackware and many others by time Ubuntu came on the scene, so there was never "only Ubuntu".
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On 02-12-20 09:56, Nightfox wrote to Mortifis <=-
In 2004, I was trying out Gentoo Linux, and chose the version of Gentoo where you'd build everything from the ground up (so you could optimize the build settings for your machine). I was trying it on a laptop, so it wasn't the most powerful PC already, and building something like XFree and Gnome took maybe 8 hours or so..
I was reading about Gentoo, but while the concept did intrigue me, I could s it being impractical for me at the time, as I'd be spending hours compiling dependencies for anything I wanted to install.
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Re: Re: Linux Alone With Synchronet BBS?
By: Tony Langdon to Nightfox on Thu Feb 13 2020 08:18 am
I was reading about Gentoo, but while the concept did intrigue me, I co see it being impractical for me at the time, as I'd be spending hours compiling dependencies for anything I wanted to install.
Yeah, I think the long install times (due to compiling everything) is a bit t to using it rather than waiting for it to build.
Nightfox
On 02-14-20 09:23, Moondog wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
I recall when I was first looking into linux, Red hat and Slackware
were getting all the attention. Suse was bought up by Novell.
On 02-14-20 09:34, Moondog wrote to Nightfox <=-
There are so many distros out there, there's a good chance someone else built up a distro with the features you require. Audio related distros with low latency kernals is a good example, as are the security and
white hat hacking distros. Manjaro is a great easy to set up distro
based on Arch.
On 02-14-20 09:27, Moondog wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
Once in awhile I look at the "linux from scratch" site, and ponder
whether I want to try a ground up assembly of linux. I'm sure it would
be an awesome learning experience, however I doubt I could see any practical use doing it.
Moondog wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
I recall when I was first looking into linux, Red hat and Slackware
were getting all the attention. Suse was bought up by Novell.
On 02-14-20 09:23, Moondog wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
I recall when I was first looking into linux, Red hat and Slackware were getting all the attention. Suse was bought up by Novell.
Debian also had a dedicated following back then, mostly among hardcore Linux hobbyists. I was using mostly Red Hat in those days.
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I recall when I was first looking into linux, Red hat and Slackware
were getting all the attention. Suse was bought up by Novell.
Debian also had a dedicated following back then, mostly among hardcore Linux hobbyists. I was using mostly Red Hat in those days.
On 02-14-20 09:42, Moondog wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
Years ago I read about linux users finding alternate uses of the sound capabilities of Winmodems, however I never looked any deeper into it.
Now you've got me intrigued. :)
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I liked SuSe; I had a couple of clients back in the first dot-com boom running it; I was mostly a FreeBSD and RedHat guy back then.
On 02-15-20 12:09, Moondog wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
It's amazing how many Debian variants are out there, or at least appear
in my casual browsing. I've been an Ubuntu user since ver 6(?) and
have branched in to using Raspbian on my two Raspberry Pi's and Armbian
of a Rock64 I set up for a non-profit to run a presentation Powerpoint
on a display.
On 02-15-20 09:58, Dumas Walker wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-
I recall when I was first looking into linux, Red hat and Slackware were getting all the attention. Suse was bought up by Novell.
Debian also had a dedicated following back then, mostly among hardcore Linux hobbyists. I was using mostly Red Hat in those days.
I think it still does, and slackware also, by hobbyists.
On 02-15-20 12:12, Moondog wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
I'm curious how many hacks are done that done involve a phone line at
all.
Moondog wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
I recall when I was first looking into linux, Red hat and Slackware were getting all the attention. Suse was bought up by Novell.
Before Novell bought SuSe, they licensed AT&T SYSVr4.2, added some Novell core protocol drivers and software, wrapped Motif WM around it and called it UNIXWare. That was one of my first forays into UNIX.
I liked SuSe; I had a couple of clients back in the first dot-com boom running it; I was mostly a FreeBSD and RedHat guy back then.
I had a boss who thought its integration with our Novell network was nifty, then put it in our DMZ as a bastion host where it couldn't talk to the Novell network. Oops.
... Faced with a choice, do both
I recall when I was first looking into linux, Red hat and Slackware were getting all the attention. Suse was bought up by Novell.
Debian also had a dedicated following back then, mostly among hardcore Lin hobbyists. I was using mostly Red Hat in those days.
I think it still does, and slackware also, by hobbyists.
* SLMR 2.1a * Veni, Vidi, Visa. (I came, I saw, I charged it.)
My first books on linux came with the retail version of SuSe 8.2 Professional I purchased at Best Buy. The kit came with two books - one of gneral stuff for the base edition, then another on the additional software bundled with the pro version. Their "killer app" they bragged about was Yast (yet another setup tool.) It was a graphical toolkit which gave you similar abilities as Control Panel in Windows. The books helped out alot.
software etc had that stuff AND wildcat! for sale. nobody ever bought it, though.
Around 1999 or 2000, I bought a copy of SuSE at CompUSA. I thought it was c seeing boxed copies of Linux in software stores, and I thought it was cool t have a printed manual with it.
Yast was one of the things I liked about SuSE.
Once in awhile I look at the "linux from scratch" site, and ponder whether I want to try a ground up assembly of linux. I'm sure it would be an awesome learning experience, however I doubt I could see any practical use doing it.
On 2/14/20 7:27 AM, Moondog wrote:
Once in awhile I look at the "linux from scratch" site, and ponder whether want to try a ground up assembly of linux. I'm sure it would be an awesom learning experience, however I doubt I could see any practical use doing i
Customizing Arch might be a good middle-ground step if that's what
you're into.
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