> Very well Zoup. Interesting review of Slackware. Fact is after the > availability of Debian and Gentoo, Slackware has lost many of it's > users, but it is still a very rock solid distrobution. It is nice to > see slackware competeing with others, specially noting that slack was > the first Linux distro, which became known worldwide (long before > RedHat). People still say that it is the most Unix-like Linux distro. > > zoup, I find your review of slack very interesting. You nearly covered > all major aspects of the distro, except package managment. I know that > slack does not use RPM or DEB, but deals with tar.gz files with special > tools called pkgtools. (or something like that). Could you please also > add a few point to your review about software installation and package > managment in slack, and then post your review to linuxiran.org! ? > I think it is well worth publishing in the website. > > Cheers
its OK , i will work on it , but yes ! slackware are using some sort of different package management , it use tgz files with some extra utility's like removepkg , upgradepkg , installpkg and a complex tool named pkgtool , the goal is that to user can list those packages are installed on the system ( like rpm or deb ) and can uninstall (also easy to install )them anytime ( package list is in /var/log/packages) this tgz files ( called slack packages ) works like rpm running with script and compiled with it , but no check for depency and really better than that , rpm always had some troubles :)for some servers like Cups its better to use slack packages because of Run level system , slackware uses different run level system in plain text ,slackware are compatible with rpm and deb , i have installed rpm on my slack but don't use it much , also support rpm2tgz command that i have never tested , yes Slackware is rock solid and damn stable and is the oldest surviving Linux distribution out there. i guess SLS was before Slackware, isn't ? -- Wish You Were Here ... _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
