indeed. I've never got one of the 'easy' distros RH, Mandrake to work properly...
Shane Curtis Sloan wrote: > 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
