Another Day Another Distro--Part 6--Slackware 12 | Linux Today

Another Day Another Distro–Part 6–Slackware 12

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 6, 2007

“After my positive experience of Debian it was time to move on
and this time I chose Slackware 12 to try out. I didn’t know
anything about Slackware going into it and I certainly didn’t know
what I was getting myself into, ‘fools rush in’ as they say. I
certainly did. Slackware was an effort to say the least, I spent a
couple of days with it. So, here’s what happened on my Slackware
adventure…

“As I’ve said I really didn’t know anything about Slackware
before this and it was something of a black spot in my Linux
knowledge, not the only one as you will probably have guessed. I’d
never even heard anything about it and I assumed it would be an
easy distro to use because the term ‘slacker’ usually means someone
who likes to take life easy, boy was I wrong…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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