Gilles Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How the hell is Volkerding and his small pack managing to put out Slack 8 > with XFree86 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.5, KDE 2.1.2, GNOME 1.4, glibc 2.2.3, > Mozilla, Galeon, Nautilus, ProFTPD, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, mod_ssl, mod_php... > and all the usual utilities, hardly 3 months after Mandrake rushed out > their broken down distro? Has anybody heard that Slackware isn't safe > : ) ?
Debian has all of the latest and greatest in Debian/unstable, and Debian/unstable is probably significantly more stable and consistent than Slackware. > Is apt-get really worth this huge delay? Yes. > We do plan to teach the newbie some fundamentals. I would venture that installing potato, then upgrading to woody or sid is still less complicated than installing Slackware. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Yow! My pants just went to high UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | school in the Carlsbad Seattle, WA, USA | Caverns!!! http://www.rudedog.org/ |
