Re:There is no good reason to use Slackware
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I don't consider Slackware more solid that some other distributions (but I wouldn't include RH in the list). BTW, why is it that when you critize slackware, people compare it to RH, There is more than just RH...
As for security and bleeding edge, sure slackware being so behind lets the other distribution maintainers find and fix the bugs and picks them up way later. If that is what you're looking for, then just run Suse 5.2 or RH 5.2, or even 4.2 Now, by running ancient distributions, it also means that you get ancient packages with known exploits, unless you apply all the known fixes... Frankly, I'm not convinced
Re:There are 1000 good reasons to use Slackware
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You obviously haven't done a minimal Debian install. I have, and went so overboard that all I was left with was ed as an editor.
As for dependencies, I have a clue about what I'm talking about, thank you very much. You can compile your stuff from source and either create your own packages to make the dependencies happy to simply use --nodeps to ignore dependencies when you install packages later. It's not all that hard, really...
Sorry, there is no good reason to use slackware anymore. It's always late, it's missing many packages, and its package management sucks.
I find it interesting that some people have the balls to say that having few packages and a braindead package manager is a feature...
If you want a small distro, Red Hat is indeed not what you should choose, but Debian is just fine. As for too many packages in Debian, well, just don't install them.
It's also interesting that some people think that the mere presence of RPM or dpkg, and a bunch of pre-built packages somehow prevents them from rebuilding from source...
Sure, if you're an old time linux user, slackware is fine, but that's because you don't care what distrib you use since you rebuilt your whole system anyway. As for new users, I shudder at the though of them trying slackware instead of a saner, better built distro.
Mmmh, let's see, paying the current maintainer of ext2fs won't help improving it, and working on the journalled version of ext2 so that people don't have to wait hours for each fsck on huge disks. I guess VA can't use that work at all:-) (work which will obviously be available to everyone). For those who attended Ted's talk on btrees in ext2 at linuxexpo 98, he never got the chance to implement it because he was too busy doing other things at his previous job. Well now, he'll have the chance to work on those things.
As for Rasterman and Mandrake, if you look at how seriously broken the desktop is in RH 6.0, I'm not quite sure why it would make sense to improve those either...
Re: yep, it's not my car yet :-)
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I do drive a mazda for now (and do own the license plate): photo
$80k for a lamborgini was tempting, but I'll get the house first. In the meantime, you can still have fun with gimp. Marc Check before and after
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As for security and bleeding edge, sure slackware being so behind lets the other distribution maintainers find and fix the bugs and picks them up way later.
If that is what you're looking for, then just run Suse 5.2 or RH 5.2, or even 4.2
Now, by running ancient distributions, it also means that you get ancient packages with known exploits, unless you apply all the known fixes...
Frankly, I'm not convinced
You obviously haven't done a minimal Debian install. I have, and went so overboard that all I was left with was ed as an editor.
As for dependencies, I have a clue about what I'm talking about, thank you very much. You can compile your stuff from source and either create
your own packages to make the dependencies happy
to simply use --nodeps to ignore dependencies when
you install packages later. It's not all that hard, really...
Sorry, there is no good reason to use slackware anymore. It's always late, it's missing many packages, and its package management sucks.
I find it interesting that some people have the balls to say that having few packages and a braindead package manager is a feature...
If you want a small distro, Red Hat is indeed not
what you should choose, but Debian is just fine.
As for too many packages in Debian, well, just don't install them.
It's also interesting that some people think that
the mere presence of RPM or dpkg, and a bunch
of pre-built packages somehow prevents them from
rebuilding from source...
Sure, if you're an old time linux user, slackware
is fine, but that's because you don't care what
distrib you use since you rebuilt your whole system anyway.
As for new users, I shudder at the though of them
trying slackware instead of a saner, better built
distro.
If you had an idea how many résumés they receive,
you'd understand that they can't give feedback
to everyone
Mmmh, let's see, paying the current maintainer :-)
of ext2fs won't help improving it, and working
on the journalled version of ext2 so that people
don't have to wait hours for each fsck on huge
disks. I guess VA can't use that work at all
(work which will obviously be available to everyone).
For those who attended Ted's talk on btrees in
ext2 at linuxexpo 98, he never got the chance to
implement it because he was too busy doing other
things at his previous job. Well now, he'll have
the chance to work on those things.
As for Rasterman and Mandrake, if you look at how
seriously broken the desktop is in RH 6.0, I'm
not quite sure why it would make sense to improve
those either...
$80k for a lamborgini was tempting, but I'll get the house first. In the meantime, you can still have fun with gimp.
Marc Check before and after
If you want to check out the engine:r /112_lamborgini.html
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/photos/Home/Newca
Mmmh, a house or a car? Well, I'm too conservative, I'll go for the house first (the
car was selling for $80k)
Marc