watch for heresay

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Kirk Wood said the following on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:48:18AM -0500:
> For the complete novice, RedHat and Debian have the easiest
> interfaces. I highly recomend RedHat's linuxconf for ease of use. With the
> one program you can do most configuration needed. It comes standard on a
> redhat install. It is available for debian and might be for slackware.

So far as I know you can compile and install linuxconf for slackware
but I have not seen a slackware package.  I believe and this is just my 
viewpoint that slackware's approach is to have one edit things manually 
so you can see how things work rather than totally dependig on
automated things to do the work for you.

> Slackware has the highest learning curve for admin. That being said, it is
> the easiest to maniputlate on a basic leve. All Linux systems use text
> files for their config. Slackware is the easiest to directly modify the
> text file.

How very true.  When I learned Linux Slackware was the first distro I
even used.  I personally like to see how thigs are done.  Becuase fo
this I prefer Slackware.  I wonder if being a Unix admin for Sprint has 
something to do with my liking for admin type of configurations for
Slackware.  The real nice thing is I've configured Slackware systems,
left them alone, and as long as I document notes on what I did, I can
leave them alone for months at a time without having to change
anything.

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