This isn't a really specific question, but I have been using Slackware for several years now and still love it! I recently attempted a switch to Debian for the same reasons Chuck considered - package management. But I came right back to Slackware. The basic tools for doing things like configurations and even package construction is all by shell scripts and I even have figured out how to build my own slackware compatible package for Exim now. I never did get Debian 3.0 to come up with speakup because the available speakup bootdisks for debian are out of date and the drivers do not match, thus you can only get so far when installing debian 3.0 with speakup from scratch. I guess existing debian machines upgrade ok but I could never succeed from a previous slackware or empty box. I kept getting unresolved external symbols while loading any modules. One thing I enjoy about slackware is being able to easily get "under the hood" and look at all the pieces. I have found once in a while that a slackware binary package for a given application doesn't quite work to my wishes so I ended up uninstalling the package and rolling in the original tarball instead. I had to do that with php and emacs for sure. With php, the package did not include postgresql support and I wanted that; and with emacs, something got funky when I tried using cperl-mode so I reinstalled those applications from scratch with my own configurations. I will usually start with the provided packages and if they work well, then so be it; but if I have trouble, it is easy enough to remove the package and do otherwise. On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:03:43PM -0500, Kody Dossey wrote: > Hello list! :) > > I was curious if anyone is using Slackware Linux + Speakup? If so, would > you like to share your thoughts/experiences with me about any > problems/recommendations/loving rants? > > Regards, > Kody > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
