--- Begin Message ---On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:18, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote:> wants to come. I think she is afraid of too many geeks in one room (LOL!!!) I am not a geek! Now if you'll excuse me I am busy downloading an episode of Star Trek from Kazaa, reading e-mails from the Linux users group, and studying networking :-) > I am not sure which distro I will try out, but I am thinking of trying > slackware 8.1. I have heard some good things about it and I have the disk > from another Linux format mag. I was thinking of Storm Linux (2000) by > Stormix, but Stormix has been out of business and no documentation and > support might make that a bit to challenging at this point. But if anyone > has some info on it they could share...let me know. If I am correct, > Slackware is a debian build isn't it? Anything I should know about Deb > builds? I know the programs and stuff are different (deb's vs. rpm's), but > that is about all I know at this point. I will do some research when I get > a chance. No, Slackware is not based on Debian. Slackware uses it's own package format which is pretty basic from I've heard (ie. no dependency checking, no apt). Jesse--- End Message ---
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