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
-- 
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they
never have to stop and answer the phone.


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