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[David Jackson]

So far it's been Slack and now Ubuntu. Started with Slack 3.0 and then red hat 3.3 thru 5.x.  I used Debian back around Sarge. There was a pretty major change in the libc in Linux then. Many broken systems.  I think I remember someone writing a howto to do that upgrade with apt-get and my upgrade went flawlessly.  I think there had to be a specific order. Anyway I've always had a soft spot for apt-get after that.  But I remember my deb box being way out of date behind the rest of Linux land.  So I'm happy to see so many Debian spin offs. <br/><br/>Slack has been instructive and a lot of fun as a box I can tinker with and tweak how I like.  But a little harder to update in place without fixing a bunch after.  Still a fave distro tho.  If I focused on streamlining and getting the upgrades down I'd probably be happy with it forever. <br/><br/>So far Ubuntu seems like a favorite and easy. Not sure how I feel about Canonical.  Unity is a great word but they
 can keep the desktop.  Not for me.  Typically a fluxbox sort of guy.  But I'm trying Mate. So far so good.  I love the endless repositories for Ubuntu.  <br/><br/>So I used to used procmail and mutt for list traffic.  But now it's just Yahoo.   Haven't been on a list for years.  Is the cruft from yahoo on my emails getting to be a bit much for the list?<br/><br/>Dave<a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com?.src=iOS"><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a>
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