Slackware or Debian or *BSD

[cga]

I want a UNIX. I want a simple, mostly CLI system to use for writing stuff with LaTeX, surfing the web, doing e-mail and usenet, and playing with Python.

And, if at all possible, with a Fortran dev ability.

No bloat. No BS.

What should I do?

[Ashcrow]

Try OpenBSD!

[pbharris]

debian!

[CP]

SLACK. Honestly they will all do what you want. You can install as much or as little as you want in both Slack and Debian, never used *BSD but I'd assume its the same. And as far as I know Slack has got Fortran support if you want it.
CP

[praetorian]

Slack or Debian!

[Mor_gath]

I would say slack or openbsd

[me=Lovechild]sounds like a scratched record[/me]

GENTOO !!!

Also FreeBSD 5.0 looks nice - I couldn't get GNOME2.2.1 installed on it but that's the danger of running -current I think.

[cga]

[quote author=Ashcrow link=board=7;threadid=6856;start=0#64008 date=1050713378]
Try OpenBSD!
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Just spent some time looking over the website, and my, does OpenBSD look good. Maybe just the thing I am looking for. I'll have to spend some more time reading the man pages and other docs in the site.

So, Ashcrow, what specifically do you like about OpenBSD?

[GhostDawg]

On my tower system, I have Slackware 8.0, Debian 3.0 and Freebsd 4.7 installed and they all are great distros.

[quote author=GhostDawg link=board=7;threadid=6856;start=0#64319 date=1051407343]
... Freebsd 4.7 ... all are great distros.
[/quote]

FreeBSD is not a GNU/Linux distribution. Also BSD is probably as close as you will get to UN*X, without plunking down some major dough.

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Ghost D. your sentence included two GNU/Linux distros, which lead me to believe that you were lumping in FreeBSD as one too. While most of the users here might know the difference, I pointed that out for the unintiated. It was not meant as a flame I appologize if you took it as such.
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