dep, FHS, Slackware

[David A. Bandel]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:06:17 -0400
begin  dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> spewed forth:

> begin  Michael Hipp's  quote:
> 
> | I'm curious. What do you find attractive about Slackware? What
> | causes it to stand out so above the others?
> 
> it takes other people's system resources seriously, and but for 
> bsd-style init scripts sticks to the fhs.

You can, simply replace the BSD-style scripts with ones of your choosing. 
Heck, you can even follow other SySV boxes and use /sbin/init.d is you're
determined to shoot yourself in the head.

Point is, Slack can be made SySV just by ripping out their startup scripts
and substituting your own (starting w/ /etc/inittab and progressing
through rc.d/ and adding any called scripts in /sbin, like
start-stop-daemon or daemon, or whatever).

> 
> | My (unlearned) impression is it's the one with a face only a mother
> | could love. And will never be anything more than a curiousity. So
> | in that way, it's arguably no different than Gentoo. Just older.
> 
> older sometimes has its advantages -- patrick and his people have been 
> around the block enough to know what they're doing. and i daresay 
> there are several people here who would point out that it is not a 
> curiousity -- at least not in the way gentoo is.

I started on Slackware (this was before RH even existed).  What I liked
about it was it looked and felt almost exactly like my Ultrix and SUN OS 4
(Solaris 1.x) boxes did (SUN switched to SySV w/ SUN OS 5, aka Solaris
2.x).  Openwin anyone?  Thank God for CDE (not-so-Common Desktop
Environment).  Openwin, the only desktop worse than M$'.

[snip]

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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