On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:36:37AM +0200, Doug wrote: > Thomas, > > > Thanks, this was vary helpful. > > I started on Redhat long ago in the Redhat 5 days, then > switched to slackware a few years ago. Yes there is a lot > to learn, but if you persist, slackware is a great system. > It is great because of its simplicity. That may not seem > true right now, but it will later if you keep on plugging. > If you have more slackware questions, feel free to send > me email directly. I've done so many slackware installs > I can almost do it in my sleep. Yeah and now the 9.0 release was pretty to upgrade in place too. Past experiences with upgrading in place usually ended up having to be a complete reinstall but this time, I was able to update the various packages tweek a few files in /etc and away I go! Sure handy to have diff around to compare the new files from the upgrade with the original ones.
