Cool at last we all move to slackware ... ;-) No need to reply, but I just couldn't resist .... Ubuntu looks like a good choice in most cases so if it works for the lug keep it.
Not at all; in fact I'm one of the most vocal supporters. The comment was in reference to a very angry disagreement with our stance which I received in the WLUG survey, full results of which will be shared at the AGM.
on a side note its good to see the new boot times for Mandriva, hope a few more distros start looking at this too
///Snip while many distributions have been talking about speeding up the boot process, an area where no Linux distribution compares favourably with Microsoft Windows, it seems that the developers of Mandriva did not just talk - they simply did it! And the result? On our Pentium 4 test box with 384MB of RAM, Mandriva 2006 RC1 takes 23 seconds to boot into the console login prompt, and 52 seconds into full KDE (bypassing the KDM login screen)! This is a remarkable achievement when compared to SUSE Linux 10.0 RC1, which takes 108 seconds to boot into KDE, or Fedora Core, which needs 76 seconds to boot into GNOME on the same system. Snip/// Taken from Distrowatch weekly here : http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20050912