Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: suse 11.3 issues

I don't think that Arch is based on Slack. It is a great distro, but it was
built from scratch and was influenced by Crux and Gentoo. This is not a
knock against Slackware which is also a great choice. Pacman was developed
by founder Judd Vinet in 2002 and is still used today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slackware_family_tree_11-06.png

If you do not mind working from the commandline and want a great minimalist
distro that is a rolling release then Arch would be my choice, If you want
more GUI control then I would look at Gentoo-based Sabayon, but it is
anything but minimalist.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 1 April 2012 14:12, Paul <pfrederick1@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Hal <halinux@...> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:56:02AM -0000, Paul wrote:
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> > > I'm still looking for a distro that operates on the theory of, if it
> ain't
> > > broke, don't fix it!
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> > Slackware??
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> I ran Slackware from versions 3 to 8 so I am familiar with it. Enough to
> know it'd be a poor fit for me today with my present circumstances. This
> new machine makes 5 I have to care for now and I simply do not have enough
> hours in the day. I gave up on Slack initially because one PC was getting
> too burdensome.
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> I am investigating Arch which is based on Slack but research is still in
> the early stages there so it is too soon for me to say much as of yet.
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> If there were easy answers I'd have found them by now.
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