Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:32:03PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and > redhat? Yes, in terms of unstability for sure. If it would be as easy as getting glibc 2.1 from cvs and the kernel from kernel.org and recompiling the softwar

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > That depends. If you think it will, then it will. If you think it > won't, then it won't. Each distribution is a sum of its parts. No one Debian is more than the sum of its upstream parts. Extra stuff like dpkg, update-rc.d, upd

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:53:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It wasn't that long ago (a few months?) that Slackware released 3.6 (2.0.35) > ... isn't it two short for a new release? Depends. Both Red Hat and Slackware have had new versions out the door in 2 months, and new versious o

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread homega
Steve Lamb dixit: > home I run my Laptop on Debian 2.1, my "main" machine on some portions of > Potato. My main machine runs kernel 2.2.1, my laptop 2.0.34. Functionally, > they are identical to one another. I telnet in, I run X aps, no big deal. > They work. I really can't tell the differenc

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:32:03PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and > redhat? That depends. If you think it will, then it will. If you think it won't, then it won't. Each distribution is a sum of its parts. No one individ

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-24 Thread steven walsh
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > I saw a posting on linuxtoday.com that a slackware 4.0 beta was uploaded > to ftp.cdrom.com. It is based on glibc2.1 and kernel 2.2.3 > > So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and > redhat? > > (not that debian has to