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Re: GNOME, Slackware, Ubuntu: msg#00031

Subject: Re: GNOME, Slackware, Ubuntu
John Levin wrote:

I've noticed quite a few people on the user list say they use / used to use slack, and I'm one of them.

 Yup. Slackware is very powerful distro. :-)

(Right now updating to -current on an old laptop that doesn't work with ubuntu.*)

 Same here. I'll try again with Horay.

Easy to install, fast, light, stable;

Quick to install, fast because of BSD scripts, stable because of smart packages selection. Somehow Ubuntu's going same way. Except maybe for BSD startup scripts, but developers are working on turtle-speed-hotplug ;)

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 Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, software departament of TPnets.com
 http://opi.pegasos.pl http://ubuntulinux.org

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