On 02/19/2011 06:20 PM, Robert Simpson wrote:
I am currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and Slackware 13.1. I have always
liked Slackware but stopped using it because it would lead you into
dependency hell every time you wanted to add a program. I am running
the current version of Slackware in Virtual Box on my Ubuntu machine. I
have to say that the newest version of Slack seems to have everything I
would need already set up. I just wish the it used Gnome for the
default desktop instead of KDE.
The nice thing about Slack is that the dependency hell is usually a very
mild one. Usually it's just download-compile-install what's missing and
repeat until the errors stop. Compare to Debian where a simple download
of a needed package can lead to 20+package updates (including low level
libraries and kernels sometimes), updating or installing a package can
lead to a conflict with another essential package or installing a
package will fail because the install script depends on a new feature in
a tool and when you go to install a new version of that tool, its
install script also depends on the new version of that tool. I've had
all of these happen and they can turn a 5 minute job into a nightmare.
Not that I'm dissing Debian. When it works it's slick and overall, it's
no doubt much easier to maintain than Slack (Though what they have done
with some of the configuration files boggles the mind sometimes). It's
just the "gotchas" tend to be bigger when they do occur and require a
lot more work to put straight.
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