[AuckLUG] Installing Linux

[Denise Bates]

Ravi Chemudugunta wrote:

> if you want the most out of your box, I would go for ubuntu or debian.
> ubuntu has a very large repository from which you can choose applications
> from, even the more esoteric ones like the ones I use for music production.
> there is also a large user base for ubuntu that post thousands of howtos
> like (beryl on feisty fawn) on ubuntuforums.

What rubbish! linuxpackages has a huge repository of slackware-specific 
applications. Despite (or perhaps because of) the relatively simple .tgz 
based slackware packages, dependency-related problems hardly ever arise.

regards,
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