The wonders of Slackware

[Kurt Wall]

Also sprach Aaron Grewell:
>
> 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 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.

There are few prebuilt tarballs for Slackware. I don't know why, but I've
also found it doesn't matter. Grab and build the source tarballs. I 
understand that your box is old and slow, but that's really the only way
to go. You can make your own Slackware packages, I suppose. Have a look
at the makepkg man page. It's pretty simple and straightforward.

Kurt
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