I run an entire data center of Slackware Linux on Dell servers. My entire EMail and Web hosting platform is Slackware. I have ~30 Slackware Linux boxes. My i

I run an entire data center of Slackware Linux on Dell servers. My entire EMail and Web hosting platform is Slackware. I have ~30 Slackware Linux boxes. My installs are very stripped down. I.E. I don't install any of the KDE, Gnome or X stuff. I also remove the games and many of the stock applications that ship with Slackware. I hate Ubuntu, RedHat, etc... Everytime I use them, I feel like I'm fighting the GUI. Ubuntu, for example, I could never figure out how to change the IP address without using the KDE GUI. On Slackware it's as easy as editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf I resist Ubuntu, RedHat, etc... because it forces you to become familiar with that distro's way of doing things. And there in lies the rub. As more and more distributions of Linux come about, I see a fragmented Linux world. So, in short, I guess you could say I stuck with what I learned and know from years back. I know that at start up, the stuff inside /etc/rc.d/inet1.conf are parsed and fed to ifconfig for static IPs. my 2 cents...