By MAMP I mean LAMP (sorry typo) On 5 May 2011 08:26, Richard Forth <richard.fo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to you both Avi and Gary > > I've never actually used it been put off in the past by the > Built-It-Yourself distros (is slackware in that category?), but now I have > been certified i feel a little more tempted (nay confident) to try > something, either like Slackware or Arch, just to test my knowledge and > learn some more. > > My next goals personal and professional development wise are LPIC-2, and > the RedHat RHCT/RHCE route, plus a bit of MAMP on the side, so i really need > Fedora or soem useful redhat derivative to play with, I just cant seem to > get on with Gnome 3 tho. Though Gui is not that important for the RHCE type > stuff its still a bit annoying learning something new, but like anything it > will take time to understand and mature and get used to. > > The thing that would attract me to something like slackware or arch is the > very fact that you can build it just how you want it, but I would most > definately be out of my comfort zone as coming from ubuntu where "stuff just > works" it will be a shocker I'm sure, but as you say a worthy one for all > the internals learning and experience that type of system brings. > > Regards > Richard > > > On 4 May 2011 23:43, Avi <li...@avi.co> wrote: > >> Richard Forth wrote: >> > What is the underlying system in Slackware? RedHat or Debian? or is >> > Slackware "itself" like BSD or something? >> > >> >> Sort of in-between. Slackwae is "itself" like Debian is or RedHat is. >> It's just another Linux distro, but one without any real parents, but >> it's definitely a Linux and not a BSD. >> >> -- >> Avi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peterboro mailing list >> Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >> > >
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