[AuckLUG] Installing Linux

[Liz]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 22:03 +1200, Denise Bates wrote:

> What rubbish! linuxpackages has a huge repository of slackware-specific 
> applications. Despite (or perhaps because of) the relatively simple .tgz 
> based slackware packages, dependency-related problems hardly ever arise.
Whilst this may be true, I think the meaning was more along the lines of not having to go hunting and searching for everything. Just click something in the menu and presto its a pretty gui style thing.

Otherwise you could say that LFS (Linux From Scratch) was better because
you can find the tarballs and compile them easily enough too :)

Liz

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