On Wednesday 26 April 2017 01:34:19 pm you wrote: > Where do builders of communications satellites and space probes get their > caps? Some of those probes have been functioning for decades, all the > while bombarded by intense radiation.
Good point ! 5 years due to the bad electrolyte the rest of us are subject to would, indeed, be unacceptable in locations where field service is... shall we say... expensive ? > > I did update the house server to Slackware 14 64 bit, but only because it > > was going down for replacement anyway. > > I've never tried Slackware. Looking at the Web site, I see references to > XFree86; are they still using that? Xorg, derived from Xfree86 v4.4rc2 itself derived from X386 v1.2 contributed to X11R5 back when. > I can't see that they have any package manager like yum or apt. I imagine > that means I'd have to install everything from source, no? There are after market add-ons available, like slapt. You'd probably find that familiar. Yum, no. I haven't found, but haven't looked too hard, either. Slackware does have it's own native package manager, but it does NO dependency checking whatever. Slackware packages are available from various places, and slack pack makes them relatively easy to build from source, so no, you wouldn't have to do it all from source. Slackware is NOT for the appliance operator ! But, the lack of dependency checking does make it possible to do things that the appliance oriented systems simply won't. OTOH, it sometimes makes doing some of these things necessary. If you want to know what's going on "under the hood" you will, partly because you'll have to ! Fred got me onto Slackware back in the 7.0 days. I came from Debian. Back then, Ian was still involved, so Debian was OK. When FSF dropped HURD and Ian left, leaving Debian to FSF, it was time for me to move on anyway. Slackware has grown, but really not changed much. It's still a legit UNIX. I've also been through SCO Unix, QNX, VX, Blue Cat, LynxOS, SLAX, and a couple others as well, including Knoppix ( a Debian derivative ) so do take it all for what it's worth. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com "... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." -- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter Preposterous Words _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
