<snipped>On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +0000 "Robert E. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Honestly I don't care about *his* ability to keep it terribly current.. as he won't, even if it's easy (that's why I was willing to put Gentoo on it). He's actually able to figure out Synaptic on the Redhat installation on his desktop... maybe I ought to bite the bullet and try Debian again...
Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in
my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was several years
ago- I just hated having to wait for up to date versions to make it into stable, which I'm definitely going to be using on someone else's machine).
Debian used to have only stable and unstable. Now, there's testing. Current packages, but not bleeding edge, also not as stale as stable.
Also a few other non-official repositories have things like acrobat reader, kde-3.1.4, etc.
SuSE I'd rather not pay for, and neither would he.
Slackware looks like my best option right now... as I've got the Slackware LiveCD loaded on there right now, and it's really fast and really nice looking (it's actually faster than Redhat was running off the disk).
Ever a good choice, but harder to keep current. Wish list: apt-get for slackware (slack-get? apt-slack? apt-ware?).
Thanks!
Bob Raymond
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