| My first venture into Linux was in December 2004 on the suggestion of a friend, [[http://aal.fatdog.nl/|Aal]]. He strongly advised that I should try Slackware. Little did I know at that time that this was to be my baptism of fire! I spent the first week with Slackware by breaking my system, many times, and asking Aal to "fix it". Until the point came when he said, "WTF!?!?! Slackware is the most stable Linux system you will __EVER__ work on. How can you keep screwing it up??? The next time you break it, you'll be fixing it yourself!" After that, I got real and instead of employing the //trial and error// methods of educating myself (which had served me so well in the past), I decidedly took to the Internet and began to learn the right way. Or, at least, not the wrong way. Slackware (and Linux in general) was a whole new and very different, but exciting, ball game for me personally and up until this very day I have enjoyed every minute of it! Well, mostly every minute. lol :-D | My first venture into Linux was early in December 2004 on the suggestion of a friend, [[http://aal.fatdog.nl/|Aal]]. He strongly advised that I should try Slackware. Little did I know at that time that this was to be my baptism of fire! I spent the first week with Slackware by breaking my system, many times, and asking Aal to "fix it". Until the point came when he said, "WTF!?!?! Slackware is the most stable Linux system you will __EVER__ work on. How can you keep screwing it up??? The next time you break it, you'll be fixing it yourself!" After that, I got real and instead of employing the //trial and error// methods of educating myself (which had served me so well in the past), I decidedly took to the Internet and began to learn the right way. Or, at least, not the wrong way. Slackware (and Linux in general) was a whole new and very different, but exciting, ball game for me personally and up until this very day I have enjoyed every minute of it! Well, mostly every minute. lol :-D |
| I have tried many other Linux distributions but their appeal has not lasted with me. I think Slackware's, "KISS" philosophy, of what an operating system should offer and consist of and how it should run, is the thing that's endeared me to it. More so than any of the others. Slackware just makes sense to me. | I have tried many other Linux distributions but their appeal has not lasted with me. I think Slackware's, "KISS" philosophy, of what an operating system should offer and consist of and how it should run, is the thing that's endeared me to it. More so than any of the others. Slackware just makes sense to me. |
