Woohoo! Slackware! "Dare to slack!" lol
I'm not starting a distro war, but I do love my Slack -- and I only started using it after a very long stint with both RH and Mandrake. Bye, bye RPMS. Source tarballs are my new best friend. (Side note: I read on Slashdot one opinion that stated that the problem with RPMs was not the format, but the tools. After all, DEBs are not special, but apt sure is. I agree with that, and RPM tools are getting better every day. Check out alien, urpmi, apt-rpm, etc.) I will say that Mandrake is your best bet for a desktop replacement, out-of-the-box, all things considered. But if you like to get your hands dirty, Slack is a tremendous environment for learning and tweaking both the desktop and server. IMHO. Curtis. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Louie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Updating Mandrake 8.2 Me thinks me might abandon mdk8.2 and downloads mdk9.0 and rh8.0 and gives them a whirl. Or Slackware8.1 Jason Jesse Kline wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 15:02, Jason Louie wrote: > > Do all these applications require to be updated? I was just running a > > urpmi samba-server and I was required to update a whole slew of > > application from perl to vim. I all this required? > > > > Jason > > If you are using Mandrake 9.0 sources under Mandrake 8.2, then yes you > probably will have to update a whole wack of stuff. > > Jesse > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: signature.asc > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > Description: This is a digitally signed message part
