What Your Distro Choice Says About You

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:05:07PM -0500, David Bandel took 31 lines to write:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:55:45 -0400, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > Lame, but mildly amusing:
> > 
> > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/1322227
> 
> Well, I think us old dyed-in-the-wool UNIX admins all started with
> Slack.  I did, but then, there weren't many choices in 1992 and kernel
> 0.90 IIRC.

SLS and Yggdrasil come to mind.
 
> Besides, I learned on BSD (Ultrix, SunOS 4).  Then along came SysV (R3
> I think, then R4).

I used Dynix/PTX on Unisys UNIX boxen. Getting to play with Solaris was a
treat reserved for the senior admins. ;-)

> Glad to see Slack isn' t yet among the casualties.
> 
> So just what _does_ using Slack say about one?

>From the comments after the article:

"Slackware users are grumpy, bearded old Unix sysadmins who prefer things
be done the "good old fashioned way", making their Linux distro stick to
traditional Unix principles, through 10 feet of snow, uphill, both ways!" 

Kurt
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