Finished with Slackware for now
Kurt Wall
kwall
Mon May 17 11:46:33 PDT 2004
An unnamed Administration source, Collins Richey, wrote:
% Well, I've finished my Slackware 9.0 experiment.
%
% It's a really fine distro. I rank it number 2, right after gentoo.
%
% The principal missing ingredient is a complete selection of packages in
% Slack format, although it's much more complete than a couple of years
% ago. There are several sources of packages now. I just didn't want to
% play the game of looking for packages and using checkinstall to build my
% own packages. Also, the lack of a dependancy mechanism in the Slack
% package structure is a major flaw, from my standpoint.
Different strokes fer different folks. You get bonus points for
trying it out. :-)
Kurt
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