-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Shuttleworth wrote: > On July 19, 2009 06:40:05 am John Jardine wrote: >> Slackware - Don't use it as a laptop/desktop anymore - used to have it >> on everything > > On July 19, 2009 05:03:44 am Shawn wrote: >> I can get my hands dirty with Gentoo, LFS, etc. But I moved away from >> Gentoo because I decided I'd rather spend my time earning a living, >> rather than maintaining a desktop. So, the same would apply in the >> Slackware case. (this is not to say that Gentoo or Slack require a lot >> of maintenance, only that in my experience and how *I* use my computer >> maintenance was an issue) > > What were the problems as far as using Slackware: maintenance, etc. Can > you elaborate. > Dependency resolution was pretty much non-existent. Keeping packages up to date was a pain. Sometimes updates would change the structure of a package or overwrite configs. No QA for packages.
> I'm curious because I have been using Slackware for a couple of years > (Maybe because I wanted to learn Linux, and curious because I heard about > Slackware). I like Slackware, but I wish it would have a way to > resolve dependencies. Some say that a Package manager that resolves > dependencies can be a problem (any comments?) I would also like to try out Sure, when more advanced users start doing advanced things without knowing how that particular package manager works, they can mess things up. Generally I see this complaint from people who know more than a beginner, but are not as advanced as they think. This is not to say that package managers do not have problems, but they solve far more problems than they create. In other words, Slackware IMO takes too much time and effort to sort out the things that a distro should be doing for me. It is good to know how this all works and is put together, but day to day I do not need this overhead and have better things to do with my time. > some other distros. What other distros would you recommend. What are the > similarities and differences to Slackware? > Fedora, Cent, RHEL, *Ubuntu, possibly Mandriva (never personally tried it), and not in that order (I am pretty much a Ubuntu and Debian guy 100% of the time now, with the exception of OpenWRT that I put on my NSLU2s, my routers run voyage linux a Debian derivative). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpjgQ0ACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMIkACgsVTdgqO7q77N3jWnn/erwjEQ t1YAnRuodcu7N2bFAYX3059i7IS2vB9E =qgJX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
