On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:18:08PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > [ By all means try it, there's no point not being inquisitive, but I've yet > to see a solid benefit to using Slackware. ]
As I said in my last email, it's really simple. Actually, a nice analogy is that its simplicity is like (MS-)DOS: once you've installed it, whee, that's it. You're own your own! This is bad because you don't have features like being able to upgrade your entire system with one magic command, but it's also good because you don't have to learn anything outside of the standard UNIX tools. There's no dpkg, rpm, apt-get and stuff to learn; it's just plain simple. You do everything the 'traditional' UNIX way, which works on any distribution. Whether that simplicity is worth not having such things like advanced package management is another question :). -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
