On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Keith Duthie wrote:
> > [Ah-oh, I'm probably going to start a "distribution" war with this, but
> > quite frankly I don't care. :) Point is that slugware is now a
> > historical fossil that has no place except for very specific purposes
> > as a hacker's installation.]
> Slackware still has its uses. For anyone who's used to it, it can be
> annoying to move to a distribution which stuffs about with buggy libc
> libraries and strange directories all over the place.
I agree. Also, I hate rpm and dpkg. These tools are too restrictive.
Keeping the packages tar.gzipped is simple and effective and gives the
user more freedom, in true Unix tradition. Debian takes forever to
install and RedHat is probably going to become the Windoze of the Linux
world. It fucks up even the prompter... :-)
