> How the hell is Volkerding and his small pack managing to put out Slack 8 > with XFree86 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.5, KDE 2.1.2, GNOME 1.4, glibc 2.2.3, > Mozilla, Galeon, Nautilus, ProFTPD, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, mod_ssl, mod_php... > and all the usual utilities, hardly 3 months after Mandrake rushed out > their broken down distro? Has anybody heard that Slackware isn't safe : ) ?
Does slackware have 5000 packages? Is it as well tested, and stable as a Debian release? Does slackware support 10 architectures (like woody will, and potato supported 6)? Can you upgrade a previous slackware distribution easily to the current system or do you hope and pray, or just wipe your system and install fresh? You are comparing apples and oranges. Just because other dists are releasing bleeding edge, doesn't make them any better (let's not forget RedHat 7 and it's pre-release glibc and canabalized gcc-2.96). We prefer to release stable systems, rather than try to flash version numbers of some high visibility software. Ben -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'