Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-07 Thread Morten Liebach
On 7, aug, 2000 at 06:29:49 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > What about the compatibility between them *BSDs? I mean in terms of > packaging systems. Not so much AFAIK, binary packages is not compatible, the portstrees might be to some extent, but I have no experience in that area, and I don't th

Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 18:29:49 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Where does Yggdrasil come from? Still around? No activity on their webpages since February 1998 (www.yggdrasil.com). > Such a weird name. The Tree of Life in Norse mythology, IIRC. Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world ma

Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-07 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 06:15:42PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's > > (particularly) good about it? -> What particular things made you > > choose Slack? > > It was around and (IMO) better than Yggdrasil when I used it. :) Where

Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-04 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:26:44PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's > (particularly) good about it? -> What particular things made you > choose Slack? It was around and (IMO) better than Yggdrasil when I used it. :) > >From what I

Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-04 Thread Sven Burgener
Dear debs Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's (particularly) good about it? -> What particular things made you choose Slack? >From what I've read, it's probably the distro closest to the "roll-your-own" type of thing. Correct? Slack's package format is ".tgz"; c