DesktopLinux.com: Moving to Peanut Linux
Mar 19, 2003, 07:00 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Walter Kruse)
"I was introduced to Linux quite accidentally three years ago
and now I am addicted. My first installation was RedHat 6.0.
Someone just gave me a CD when he heard that I wasn't satisfied
with the operating system I had. I remember that first boot.
Nothing made sense. I forgot the root password before I even
finished the install (didn't think it was important). It took three
days to find out I must type Xconfigurator after logging in as
root. I had to reinstall and remember root password this time. Then
I configured X and typed startx. A wonderful, fresh new GUI
appeared, without blowing the monitor. Not too long after that a
friend heard this and gave me a Mandrake 7.0 CD. I ran mdk7 for
over a year and then gradually made my way through 7.2, 8.0, 8.1,
8.2 and finally version 9. At work I began using SQL and got to
know Oracle (which runs on SunOS 5.6). Then I started using MySQL
and PostgreSQL and all the client tools I could lay my hands on. I
have also seen StarOffice grow up from 5.1 to, now, OpenOffice
1.0.2.
"Of late I have become dissatisfied with mdk's tons and tons of
additional software and RPM dependencies. I surfed, looking for a
distro with a smaller footprint. Apart from the two above
mentioned, I had short stints with SuSE and Corel Linux in the
past. When I saw distrowatch's vast listing of flavors, I knew that
there must be something else out there. Enter Peanut..."
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