Speaking of slackware, I know that distros like redhat and debian have the ability to grab packages off the net and install them. Is it possible to have a program run from crond over night to grab and install .tgz files for slackware? Greg On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:32:56PM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > 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! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
