stayler wrote: >Hi Guys, > >I have been watching the boxen thread with interest. I noticed that a >few of the the members are using some flavor of Slackware on some of >their systems. I would like to know, of the members who use Slackware, >what you think of it and how has it worked for you. > I used Slackware for some months, but have recently switch to KRUD (www.tummy.com/krdu)
Slack was great. I liked the BSD configuration system; the system setup files were clearly written; it was very stable; there wasn't the "Bug-of-the-day" that seems to exist with RedHat; you can download the kernel source and recompile/update the kernel without problems because Slack doesn't need a lot of "improvements" in the source that RH and SUSE seem to. It was a nice, tight distribution. OTOH, you have to compile most everything you use from the source code -- which takes time and I was amazed at the amount of programs that had some really sloppy coding that called for editing and recompiling; some programs did not want to work well (CUPS comes to mind) because their developers wrote them for RH; it doesn't use PAM; there is no package management program of any utility; getting help can sometimes be difficult because the formal support site is not always up, and some of the answers to questions weren't always right; there aren't pretty configuration tools with it -- you have to edit copnfiguration files by had, BUT the files are written very clearly. On the whole, I was very satisfied with it: if all the other 200+ Linux distributions were to disappear, leaving only Slackware, I wouldn't complain. BOF _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
