> > What is the difference between Red-Hat, Debian and Slackware? > > Slackware: One of the oldest distributions, and is showing its age. > Created as a "bugfixed" version of SLS (Softlanding Linux System). > Maintained by one person (Patrick Volkerding); home site: Walnut Creek > CD-ROM (www.cdrom.com). No package tool available. Very slow to get > updated; no interim upgrades. Considered by many "old-timers" to have > "lost it" with the latest version (3.1), as most of the new parts are > added "flash", with most known security problems left untouched.
I don't intend to promote Slackware on a Debian mailing list (I'm in the process of `upgrading' from Slackware to Debian), but there are some mistakes in the above. Slackware _does_ have a package tool (called, I believe, pkgtool :-) albeit simpler (less sophisticated, less capable) than those of Debian or Redhat. Also Slackware _does_ have interim upgrades, both for new software versions and to fix security holes. However with more limited packaging and versioning etc, these are much less convenient than, say, Debian. -- David Pfitzner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
