On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:20:38 -0400 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's nothing like that in it. Basically my beef is that Slackware > no longer has a niche. LFS and Gentoo are the hands-on distros, and > RedHat and Debian are the package-based distros. IMHO, Slackware was > cool in 1995 but has since lost its spiffitude. :) Of course I have to disagree. :) I think Slackware is perfect for the control-freak who wants to get his system up and running quickly. The small selection of packages are rock-solid, and the distro is extremely stable. LFS is for the control-freak who doesn't mind spending a month to get his system compiled and fine-tuned. Gentoo is for the person who wants to claim his system is 'fastest 'cuz he compiled everything himself'. Gentoo, IMNSHO, is only for people with wide-band internet connections and lots of time to waste compiling everything per someone else's emerge scripts. Redhat/Fedora, Debian and all other dependency-checking package-based distros have the annoying problem of claiming to know your system better than you do. God forbid you ever compile something from source without packaging it and using the package-manager to install it. I detest package managers always insisting I need to downgrade my system or install totally irrelevant packages to support imaginary 'dependancies'. I recall trying to install a graphics viewer once when I was on Mandrake several years ago and rpm or urpmi wanted me to install all of gnome, kde, and change versions of XFree86 to support 'dependancies', over dial-up of course. Worked fine when self-compiled. Slackware is perfect for me. The software author's README, INSTALL, or webpage generally tells me what the dependancies are. 'ldd' works for necessary non-opensource binaries. I am in control of what gets installed and uninstalled, not some rpm, apt-get, urpmi, emerge, etc. script. Of course, I also spend a lot of time compiling add-ons to slackware. My directory of self-compiled packages is now 636MB. Slackware is also rather unique, although one could make LFS similarly, in its BSD-style boot up scripts. We have no /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/rc#.d, we have no runlevel 5 for that matter. I find the simplified boot-up much quicker and easier to modify for my needs. My two cents. :) Brad ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
