Re: Re: What's Your Go-to OS
By: Gamgee to Arelor on Tue Feb 18 2025 07:54 pm
> Probably my biggest dislike of Slackware, right there. A real world
> example of how it sucks - I recently moved the BBS from an older machine
> to a new "mini-computer" with modern hardware/UEFI "bios". Installed
> Slackware 15.0 on it and it would not start Xwindows. Eventually I
> learned that the built-in video (Intel N100 CPU) was not supported by
> the 3-year-old kernel (ver 5.x.x). So I installed Slackware-current and
Yeah, if you are running on a desktop you may just as well install Slackware -cu
rrent and treat it as a rolling distribution these days. Probably not a big deal
since -current is very well maintained, but I personally like predictable relea
se cycles.
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