On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, David Zakar wrote:
Sure. Next, take a true random poll of how many people use RH, vs how many people use Slack. Seriously: Google doesn't give you any sort of statistically valid way to determine whether Slack or RH is harder to use.
Without going into any hard science on this, the overall prevalence (and type) of RH (debian, suse etc) complaints vs. Slackware complaints should be indicative of something.
Slack's packaging works OK, assuming you're using one to five computer. That's what Rob seemed to be pointing out - it doesn't scale, at all. Installpkg doesn't even have dependency checking, which, in 2005, is pretty pathetic.
true, installpkg won't tell you what other packages you need to install... but curiously enough, this has never caused me a problem. Compare with RH's rpm, where the features seem to cause as many problems as they solve. Again, based on what I see in the newsgroups, and who's going to post a message saying everything's fine, that's a point.
I have no problems using Slackware - because I've been using Linux for many years.
I had no problem using it the first day I installed as a Linux newbie, from 65 floppy disks! And there are character witnesses who will confirm that I'm no rocket scientist.
I've used it for projects at work when I thought it was the best tool for the job (the only semi-modern distro using kernel 2.4). But that doesn't mean that I think it's a particularly good distro.
I agree that you don't think it's a particularly good distro! That's an appraisal we all have to make for ourselves. r/ Judah
