Yahoo tends to purposely break compatiblity with 3rd party clients every once in a while. And their linux client is a complete piece of crap, but I keep it around for whenever the decide to break kopete/gaim
But what of the 100+ other gnu/linux distributions out there? One of linux's greatest strengths (and weaknesses) is the insane number of distributions and the sometimes strikingly large differences between distros. This book will work for Slackware, and maybe help with a few of the slack-based distros... but probably won't be much help for fedora, gentoo, or the other distros.
For all intensive purposes a "distro" is just an installer & a package manager. Linux is linux. If you can run one well you can handle any of them.
Since Slackware stays the closest to the basics of any distribution, I would think the information in this book would be relevant to nearly any linux user.
Even those not smart enough to use Slackware in the first place.
This is good news for me. I've been waiting rather impatiently for the next release of slackware. I've tried every distro that offers a download and slackware is the only one I liked. I liked it enough to get a subscription. I'm sure Pat would appreciate it if some of you did the same.
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If they get in to trouble in the US they could make campaign contibutions to a candidate that will let them off the hook. It worked for Microsoft.
Yahoo tends to purposely break compatiblity with 3rd party clients every once in a while. And their linux client is a complete piece of crap, but I keep it around for whenever the decide to break kopete/gaim
Do they need permission from sybase to do that?
You mean like slashdot?
On the plus side, at least the topic icon is not a dupe.
Are the disks in the mail yet?
Maybe they'd call it Gnome, or something like that.
For all intensive purposes a "distro" is just an installer & a package manager. Linux is linux. If you can run one well you can handle any of them.
Since Slackware stays the closest to the basics of any distribution, I would think the information in this book would be relevant to nearly any linux user.
Even those not smart enough to use Slackware in the first place.
I'm sure IBM would be happy if linux on ppc hardware got REAL popular
Mostly web developers I think. I used to run the windows version of mysql before I moved my desktops to slackware.
I dunno, isn't that what ALL linux users do?
I'll never get to try it because I use slackware.
This is good news for me. I've been waiting rather impatiently for the next release of slackware. I've tried every distro that offers a download and slackware is the only one I liked. I liked it enough to get a subscription. I'm sure Pat would appreciate it if some of you did the same.
It won't be long before windows does this too...ow wait.
Do you really believe that?
as my list of companies to boycott.
Am I the only one who thinks their master plan involves ppc based desktops & laptops running linux. So they can stick it to both Microsoft and Intel.
not uless you're a local user on my machine.
... if I forget my root password.
Or, you could buy a supported card, put your wep keys in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, and plug it in. It will beep twice and work.
Bitchin about manufacturers who don't support linux doesn't solve any problems, but boycotting their products just might.
They already planned to have their applications ported to the web, and then scrapped those plans because the world was not/ will never be ready.
I have DirecTV and it's channel 354.
I especially like all the little black boxes in my files that have unix line endings.
They knock you down and take your PDA away in the subway.
You mean Microsoft produces promotional material that's biased towards themselves? What's the world coming to?