[MPlayer-users] Xine

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:36:22PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > I installed 7 or more times redhat this week. It is no problem. I can do 
> > that again and again.
> hehe :)
> it reminds me to age when i started this whole mess with linux...
> i've installed redhat 7 times, and never worked well...
> finally i got slackware 3.2 cd and it worked first time and for long time.
> i'm still using slackware. i don't want to flame and distro-war here, but i
> tried mdk and redhat and corel and suse several times on temp hdd, just for
> fun, but i'm still on slack, it's the best for me. i think there are such

Well, good old days ;-) I first met with Linux in 1995 at the University.
It seemed an overcomplicated strange life form for the first sight ;-) with
strange kind of prompt in the shell ;-) However there were things which were
known by me, eg I had learnt UNIX (theoretical) at Hight School and I had
had projects to make an own OS in assembly before. When I got my pentium-100
(well, it was something superb at those times) I installed Slackware from
"Chip Magazine". I knew only handling pine ;) and general utilities, like cp,
mv, rm ... and of'koz mc ;-) My next move was trying to write programs in
assembly language (I didn't know C yet). Later I started to use RedHat (well
then RedHat was quite good distribution as far as I remember). My final
choice is Debian. I'm using the SAME Debian installation for ages (of'koz it
was upgraded several times), it was copyied thrgough several harddisks :-)
But basically I'm using the SAME Debian for my first Debian distro (it was
Hamm imho, the main fork point between libc5/libc6 proggies) without ANY
reinstall ... [now try this with Windows ;-) I mean: install windows 3.1
and try to upgrade only for ages without ANY reinstall ;-)]

- Gábor