[CS-FSLUG] Test message

[Jerry Van Brimmer]

On Sunday 16 January 2005 08:49 pm, Christopher Rose wrote:
> Jerry,
>
> Check out Basic Linux. It is based upon slackware, only more minimalistic.
>
> Pax,
> Christopher

Thanks Chris, I'll keep that in mind. Right now I have two linuxes installed, 
Slack and Yoper. I've learned not to get to carried away with multiple 
installations, it gets to complex. I've done it before, but I don't want to 
do it again. The whole reason I'm trying out Yoper is because of the recent 
illness of Patrick Volkerding. As far as I can tell, he has no back up plan 
for Slackware, should, (God forbid), something happen to him. As the old 
saying goes, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." I'm beginning to think 
it's foolish to base an entire distribution on one man. So, I want to have 
another distribution installed I can fall back on. But, having said all of 
that, I'm open to all recommendations and suggestions. But, I don't like SuSE 
or Mandrake, or Red Hat. I like a less commercialized distro. So far, I like 
Yoper. But I haven't tried to do any security updates with it yet.  We'll see 
how that goes soon. I have managed to get Mutt and Moneydance installed and 
running. I must say that my Slackware experience has helped me tremendously 
with Yoper, even though it is a rpm based distro. I guess I'll have to 
relearn how to use rpms. Well, I've just been rambling on here. If your still 
reading, thanks for "listening". Comments welcome.

Jerry