Just for the record it was not me who slammed on redhat. Although I don't use it I have nothing against it. If anyone wants to make claims on installing a lot of packages one may not need the only one I've seen do that is slackware. I'm not slamming on slackware either, I use slackware still and am very happy wit it. However it is a fact that slackware will install a lot of programs and packages one may not need. Dawes, Stephen said the following on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:26:34PM -0600: > Let's not get into distribution wars again. > > You can install as little or as much of Redhat as you like. It is no > different then any other distribution in that respect. One of the bigger > differences between distributions is the package manager. A number of > distributions including RedHat use RPM as the package manager. > Similarly, Debian, and I am sure others, use APT, or whatever it is > called, as their package manager. Granted they are other differences > between distributions, that I won't get into in this note because I > don't know of them all. What I will say though, is that before slamming > a one distribution over another, maybe take a step back and think of the > other operating system that is made to run on the pc platform that not > open source. Open source is why Linux is where it is today. Open source > is why there are so many different distributions. Instead of slamming a > distribution, or saying that one distribution is better then another, > why not work towards getting speakup working on the distribution that > the user brings to the discussion. After all, isn't it better to have > speakup working with Linux regardless of the distribution? I'd say so! > >
