Slack 9 problems!!!

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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.
> >
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