On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:19:43PM +0530, shyamk @ eth . net wrote:
>
> I am interested to know how the veteran Linux users
> and generally the Linux community compares Debian
> and Slackware.Which is better, if I may ask, and why ?
>
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These distro wars can go on forever, and never come to any
conclusion ....
I have had Slack installed on my box since 1995, and still
using it.
The second distro has varied from BestLinux (Linus Finnish
distro), RH, SuSE, and then debian Slink and Potato. With
crash of my second HDD, my deb is out. Yes, I had also had
a fling with Rock ! Presently on Slack, Pygmy Linux and a
LFS under development ! .. those intending to go on to LFS
please note the term development, and NOT installation for
Linux-From-Scratch !
Slackware has the least frills, BSD type sys-admining and
you do everything by hand. Extremely flexible, and enforc-
es no policies. Package management is through scripts. The
Disk #1, is about all that is needed. Rock stable, and you
can build anything on top of it ... I love the freedom of
Slack. Incidentally, there is nothing like upgrade here.
You need to do selectively yourself ... Very good learning
value. It is the nearest to other big-brother unices ..
Debian : A very cultured distro, perhaps a bit stiff on
its management policies. You hardly need anything which is
not apt-getable from the net. In the stable release which
is months behind other distros everything works. In test-
ing most things work, in "unstable" nothing works without
complaint! If one is not inclined towards doing things
from developer tarballs, this is perhaps the best way out.
Incidentally, it has Sys-V style sys-admining. Upgrade is
painless even across the net. It has one of the most act-
ive user lists amongst all Linux distros with and average
of about 150 mails a day. It however, does not cater for
the freedom which Slack provides ... and teaches you bad
habits, because you never get to face the real problems of
life under Linux without debian :-(
The choice is upto your inclination ...
Bish
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