I'm a little unclear why you would say Red Hat is too complex to understand what it does. I suspect since I have used RH from the beginning I understand it's inner workings better than a Slack user, but I personally don't find it dificult. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Sutherland <wearable@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Slack 9 problems!!! > Steve, > > Slack 9 is awesome ... with the new hotplug support > in place it found everything for me ... slack is > getting better all the time. I am a slack addict :) > Patrick is doing good work. To be honest redhat is > too complex to even know what it does IMO ... > > BTW I tried building a linux sytstem entirely from > source www.linuxfromscratch.org ... lots o fun. If > you really want to understand linux ... this goes > down to the basics ... > -- Doug > > > At 01:29 PM 4/9/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >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. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
