[rescue] Re: Re: Small serial terminal

[Koyote]

At this point I have to wonder if anyone here has actually tried gentoo.



> > Ditto to that.  Redhat was OK in v5 days but is excrement now.
> >  I run Slackware at home and on some servers at work, very
> > happy with it.  If you can get used to devfs, Rock linux is
> > pretty good as well.  I run it on my workstation here at work.
> > Linux has it's faults but don't judge it as a whole based on
> > anything you find in redhat/mandrake.
> >
> >>Well, there's your problem right there.  I use Slackware
> >>here at the office(we need to use Linux for a combination of
> >>technical and monetary reasons) and I'm *extremely* happy
> >>with it.  RedHat is barely fit to poop on.
> >
> 
> RedHat is (IMO) unnecessarily complicated. Config files are read by
> scripts that are linked to other scripts that are called by still
> other ones. It took me ages just to not be able to figure out where to
> tell the system to load a kernel module. If the automatic stuff works
> on RedHat, you may be OK, otherwise it is a nightmare along the lines
> of trying to track down where a variable is set in Big Brother. (That
> just about drove me insane.)
> 
> To me, Slackware is simple and straightforward. Mixing precompiled
> packages and source packages isn't a problem. You don't have to
> download    anything in a specific format for the installation to
> recognize it.
> 
> And the partitions are mounted by device name *not* a label on the
> partition!
> 
> -- 
> Steve Sandau
> L3 Communications/TMA
> Bath, Maine
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