Well said. But some of us using Linux aspire to become hackers rather than
providers of stable linux/open solution to clients. So the knowledge of
what happens "under the hood" is more valuable than the ease of an rpm
update. And there are a lot of hoods to look under in any UNIX system.
Ambo
Slackware since 1994
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:50:57 +0800 (PHT), "Ian C. Sison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote :
> Therefore i say for the record, that distros like slackware are definitely
> out of the question. Slackware is good for beginning beginners wanting to
> know what happens 'under the hood', but by all means they should graduate
> to more mature distros once they get the picture.
> So what's my bottom line? Simply that you don't need to keep on updating
> to the latest versions. Doing that is an exercise for hackers over at
> redhat/mandrake/suse/debian. And they do that for a reason - to get the
> latest bleeding edge, sort out the kinks, report bugs to the authors and
> fine tune their distro for users like you and me to deploy with peace of
> mind.
>
> Your job is to provide the most stable linux/open source solution to your
> clients. And for all we know debian stable is capable of doing that.
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