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  Hola,


   While cruising through the last thread, I saw a flame of Slackware in
there. WHile I agree that RedHat 4.0(Rembrandt), and Debian 1.2 are
superior to Slackware 96(Dec 1 release) in many ways, like package
selection, package creation, package adding/deleting, package transforming
from one release to another(i.e. RedHat --> Debian), and they have a vast
number of packages, all subject and topics, there is one advantage to
Slackware96. Being a modest distribution, you get the basic Linux with
some enhancements. The rest, is up to you. While this might be kind of
tiresome to experienced Linux users, like some of us here on this list,
there is no better way to learn about Linux, the way it works, it's
inside, it's structure, and where things are on the Internet, except the
way of going out there, searching for software, ftp'iing it, compiling and
tweaking with the compilation when it breaks, and installing it on your
system. While this may very well get on your nerves, or thrash your system
from time to time, you will understand Linux much better this way than any
other, and in a shorter period of time. So, if you were to offer a
corporation that would chose (??) Linux on top of other OS's for it's Unix
system, I would offer RedHat/Debian , but if someone who wanted to know
Linux and wanted to be good at it, asked me what to install, I am not
quite sure that I wouldn't recommend to him taking it from downtown, i.e.,
install Slackware 96, and learn the rest along the way.

Just my 2 cents :)

--Ariel 

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   | Ariel Biener                                            |
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