hmmm, ok, installing and especially configuring is a pain. It never seems
to go right for me. I'm a person who wants to be productive but I don't
have time to learn how to do it!
Bad isn't it!
Ok, well I'll keep slackware in mind. Its accessible but the lack of rpm or
yum has me concerned.
Darragh
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Why do we spend more time troubleshooting our systems than actually
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels?
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:24:06PM -0000, Darragh wrote:
> > Thanks, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Why do you like it? Is it
the
> > first distro you've used? Probably not but worth a try any way.
>
> Yes, it's the first distro I've used. However, to be fair, I will
> mention that I have recently started using and exploring debian. While
> I am really impressed with debian's package system as I've mentioned
> here before, my other boxes are still running slackware, and will
> probably be doing so for the foreseeable future.
>
> > How do you
> > find installing and uninstalling applications? What's it like to
update?
>
> If there is a crunch to slackware, the above has to be it. Installing
> the distro is fine, but in the past at least, the tgz package format
> was not on a level of rpm for example. However, as we were told
> recently on the list, somebody has supposedly developed a package
> management system for slackware that is supposedly really good. I
> haven't used it myself yet, so am repeating what I read at this
> point. I will tell you though that slack 9.0 came out with more
> improved package management tools, which make upgrading a package less
> painful then in previous releases.
>
> > Did you download it from the net or buy the discs from a distributor,
why
> > did you choose what ever method?
> >
>
> So far, I've simply downloaded the disks, instead of buying
> them. Although buying the 4 disk set gave you a few extra things in
> the past (don't know if that's true still as of slack 9.1), they
> weren't extras that I particularly needed. I also liked the fact at
> first that I could try out the os/distribution without paying for more
> then a blank cd (a refreshing thought after having put money into
> Billy boy's wallet before), and downloading it meant that I didn't have to
wait
> for it to get shipped to me.
>
> Hth.
>
> Greg
> P.S. Compared to debian at least, slackware doesn't have as many
> binary packages ready to install. This means that you will be building
> some stuff from source, which is not a bad thing once you get used to
> it.
>
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