What Your Distro Choice Says About You

[David Bandel]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:27:23 -0400, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> 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.

IIRC, SLS cost as much as Xenix.  And Yggdrasil came along in '93.

> 
> > 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!"

Yeah, that sounds about right.  You forgot "barefoot".

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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