On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Andy Poling wrote:
> H.J. Lu says:
> > Anything but Slackware. It is broken in so many ways.
I am sure that Patrick V. would have choice words to pick........
So do we tear and compare, or to each their own?
I have seen most installations, but not all and can not comment on Lu's
method. I have been a Slackware Man before ELFs Slackware 2.3 was 1.2.8
but there was something before that or my memory is fried.
Every install has its strong and weak points, and let's leave on that note.
> and
>
> Mike M. Miskulin says:
> > I've always used Slakware - for at least 5 years.
> > And with SMP for over 2 now, and I've not had any
> > problems with anything.
>
> I have to agree. I have used Slackware for years, and I have it running on
> a variety of Intel-based hardware (including two SMP servers) performing a
> pretty wide variety of tasks (development workstation, NFS server, web
> server, database server, large mailing-list server, network firewall... even
> my Linux stereo :-)), and I have not encountered significant
> Slackware-specific problems.
>
> I'm not gonna try to convince anyone that Slackware is the One True Way
> (after all, Linux distributions are a matter of taste), but I don't see why
> H.J. is bashing it like that either...
I believe he has his own distribution for sale.............in my guess.
But this would be silly.................
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