Doc said:
> > It does. Up till RH 5.0 I rolled my own dist (lack of time now...), since
> > slackware didn't (do they now?) stay current with software updates.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Not so you'd notice. I gave up on Slackware right after v4.0 came
> out. Tried SuSE, Turbo, and RH6.2, settled finally on Debian unstable.
Eh, Slackware seems to do OK... they have new releases with modern SW pretty
often. Of course, I think upgrading stuff is much less trivial then on most
other distros, but I never really care because I just use the distro as a
starting point and then install stuff myself from source whenever I want to
upgrade. For that mode of operation, slackware is clearly the best (IMHO)
because it doesn't have any wanky package management that you can break by
installing something from source instead of f***ing RPM.
And if you're really looking for a secure-out-of-the box OS, don't touch linux
with a 10 ft. pole...just install openbsd :)
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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Received on Wed May 29 2002 - 13:55:14 BST