Finished with Slackware for now

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:46:33 PDT 2004


On 4/15/2003 11:03 PM, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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. :-)
> 

Bonus points?
Nobody told me anything about "bonus points" :-(
What's this some secret society thing?
Do I get points for using a Red Hat .0 release? Seems more daring than 
any Slack release would be...

Tim




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