On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:37:33AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Isn't Slack just binary and/or source tarballs? Why not keep Mandrake > but don't use the package system and install everything from source? You're still left with a bunch of impenetrable configuration files and scripts, which I don't think you get with Slackware, nor so much with Debian. > Or if you want a package system done right maybe you should try Debian? I'm using Debian. I was very disappointed with Mandrake when I found out that, just because it used RPM patches, that didn't mean you could download (RedHat) RPM's from anywhere and install them. Gentoo is becoming popular with the folks who like a clean distro and prefer to know what's going on inside it, but I haven't any direct experience of it. -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: 01638 720444 http://www.treewind.co.uk Mob: 07976 263827
