Finished with Slackware for now

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:20:51 -0400
Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:

> 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...
> 

It's a deep, dark secret now, but you used to be able to get a secret
decoder ring in every cereal box!

Like the man said, different strokes for different folks.  We all get
bonus points for experimenting and sharing our experiences.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo stable - ext3