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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

The Stealth Desktop Part I: Finding a New Distro

OFB: "Most of these [Linux switch] stories refer to some desktop-oriented or mainstream distribution, such as Mandrake, Red Hat/Fedora, or SUSE. However, there is one distribution you would seldom hear about and yet, it is uniquely qualified for heavy-duty desktop usage. I would like to show you how you could use this GNU/Linux distribution for desktop fun and profit ... Interested? Well, it is a 2-CD GNU/Linux distribution whose name is Slackware. No, I'm not joking. I mean it. For over six months now, I've switched from Mandrake to Slackware and since then I used it every day as my desktop; not only as my home desktop but also as my primary workstation at office and as a desktop for my boss, my dad and my wife. During the next few weeks, I would like to share with you the story of my switch to Slackware, giving some suggestions for using Slackware as a desktop system along the way."

Slackware was the first Linux distribution I tried, and I recall downloading its bizarre floppy images (hey, this was 1994) from the computers in the SCC Computer Lab and writing them to disk. What shocks me today, an incredible ten years later, is that Slackware still uses the same damn text-based Setup application that it's always used! Is this is a joke? Am I stuck in a time warp?

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