The wonders of Slackware

[Myles Green]

On June 12, 2002 09:26 pm, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> I just installed Slack for the first time.  I now know why the rave
> reviews keep coming for this thing.  The hardware I put it on is
> older than dirt, but nonetheless I still have disk space left.  I am
> amazed. One question:   Besides the Slackware site and its mirrors,
> where do I get precompiled packages for this thing?  I realize that

http://linuxmafia.org/


> might seem like a violation of the Slackware ethos, but last time I
> compiled Samba on this box it took 3 days.  Literally.  I have no
> desire to go through that again if I can avoid it.  Worse, they don't
> seem to ship OpenLDAP at all, or if they do I haven't found it. 
> Tips/hints/etc from the Slack crowd would be welcome.

Poke around in the contrib directory at ftp.slackware.com (or a mirror 
close to you) there's a few goodies in there. Also, it looks like Slack 
8.1 is very close - they're at rc3 now =) 

HTH
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Myles Green Calgary AB Canada
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