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["S. Porter" <sporter AT up-link.net>]

Hello, Steven & company!

I'm relatively new to the list, just coming aboard in the past month.

I'm using a P5-120 w/256MB ram & an 8gb hd partitioned roughly in half
between win98 & linux.  Even at that, RH7.2 is dreadfully slow running
gnome.  I had run BL1 previously, and now swap between it and BL2 in
order to learn more about command line linux...where the REAL power is!
:-)  I've got a TI Travelmate 486-DX40 w/24MB ram that I use to run DOS 
amateur radio applications that I'm going to install linux to tonite
(probably sans x).

So as you can see, I don't run the latest and greatest hardware or
software.  But I do appreciate slackware (my first linux) and basiclinux
for their dedication to ease of use and speed.

qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> 
> BasicLinux starts small, it does not include the kitchen
> sink.  Just the basics.  So, when you add outside binaries
> to BasicLinux, you will find that many of them depend on
> additional libraries or utilities (most of which can be
> added from Slackware).

Your (basiclinii, that is) spartan approach is right on target for users
such as myself, and I appreciate it.

[much deletia] 

> To the GUI?  I think you'll learn more at the CLI.
> The best place to understand an operating system is
> at the coal-face, not in some point-and-click cocoon.

EXACTLY!  I've "played around" with various linii distributions since
kernel 1.? and you won't learn much at all if you remain in x all the
time.  It takes a desire to delve off into the "black hole" (as my
co-workers call it) in order to learn the "nitty-gritty" of how things
work.
 
> Cheers,
> Steven

Regards,
Steve Porter
Bauxite, Arkansas, USA