Hi, I have an old dual 133mhz pentium server (64mb ram, ~8Gb scsi harddisk) with slackware 9.1 installed. Before I chose slackware, I pondered for a while whether to install debian or slackware. I've also used RH 7.2.
I've become a little unstaisfied with slackware for a few reasons: (1) their webmaster (@slackware.com) didn't reply when I sent him a mail about a mistake on the site that might befuddle people new to slac. (2) the number of packages is really small (30% of my software is compiled from source because of this). (3) the package tools are not powerful and good enough (there is no command I know of to check for updates on all packages installed, or to fetch packages from the net). (4) the packages are old (I want to have a 2.6 kernel :) and (5) some packages don't work! I've heard people say that debians package system is great (and doesn't have problems 2-5 :). So now I'm seriously thinking about switching to debian. Any tips (I want to keep my config the same and avoid reconffin')? Differences between debian and slack? Comments? Advice? Please forward a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'm not a subscriber (and don't want to subscribe for the sake of one post :) -- apparently yours, J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
