I think it wasn't this irritating before because it didn't have so much stuff. A menu like "make menuconfig" would be an improvement. It could have 4 options: Workstation, Server, Firewall or Roll Your Own.
$0.02 Tim Howe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Actually I found gentoo yesterday and was thinking it sounded very agreeable. It seems >that it isn't quite ready to go, but when it is I think I'll be trying it out. >I'm agitated by the Slackware install... It wants me to go through an entire list of >apps that basically includes everything but the few things I do want. It woun't let me >get around it. I mean, of course I want a kernel! Don't ask! If I want stuff out of the >kernel, I'll recompile later, sheesh! Good old Pat V. needs to decide what a base install >is and let people run with that. If I take the easy route, I'll have a couple gigs of >shit on here... I don't remember Slack 3.x being this agitating. > >TimH > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >> Jacob Meuser >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:14 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [EUG-LUG:3298] Re: Updating Slackware... >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:51:08AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: >> > Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, but I can't >> seem to find any >> > information on bringing Slackware 8.0 up to date... It >> seems to be 4 >> > months old, so there must have been updates since it's release (I >> > assume), but I can't find a methodology for updating the >> system. I'm >> > used to a src tree, but I assume Slack updates in some >> binary fashion? >> > Somebody care to enlighten me? >> > >> >> OT perhaps, but you may want to check out http://www.gentoo.org/ >> >> "a Linux distro BSD users can enjoy", or so I've heard. >> >> -- >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >
