----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: Slackware


> > closer to other commercial Unix versions than Slack.  If you want to
> > *really* learn to hack startup scripts, compile from source and all that
> > cool jazz, I think Slackware is a phenomenal learning tool.
>
> Nevertheless, you can do and learn the same things on basically any Linux
> distro (as long as it has a compiler and standard Unix tools) or BSD
> flavour.

Oh, absolutely - I didn't mean to imply otherwise.  It's just that on
Slackware, it's just about your only option.  You are sort of forced to
learn the "compile from source" method.

TC