Hi, I believe Slackware is now more than just a "single person", so it should surfice. I do believe Patrick Volkerding has fully recovered from his illness though.
> Debian's automatic upgrades can be a blessing where they e.g. > automatically install a security patch, but at the same time I've twice > had systems that were broken by an upgrade Consider yourself lucky. Ubuntu auto updates have broken my systems way more than twice. I now disable package updates completely. I'll only update specific packages if I know about a bug that affects me has been fixed, or I see a valid reason for a specific security update. I never blindly click "Update" any more. As the old saying goes "If it ain't broken - don't fix it!". That applies to any software, not just Linux distros. > get people onto a broadly-ported distro than to have a hodge-podge with > different package naming conventions etc. The "hodge-podge" distro (I gather you mean Slackware) is the oldest active Linux distro in existence. That must count for something. It is also the closest Linux distro to "Unix style" management, and least modified (leaving packages as the original authors intended). This appeals to many. It might not win a popularity contest any time soon, but it sure is consistent, stable, and has a loyal following. Plus it makes for a good development system [returning to the message thread at hand]. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
