[AuckLUG] Installing Linux

[Robert]

I'll second that installpkg is so easy nearly everything is covered 
either on the distro cds or from linuxpackages  if not well then 
compiling isn't that difficult in fact sometimes I prefer to compile 
from source even when I know a package already exists.

Without naming names, I find other distro's annoying  when you want to 
use an up to date application which you find is from the "unstable" tree 
then you have to upgrade all sorts of applications to resolve the 
dependencies from the one application you wanted from unstable that 
doesn't happen on Slackware!

All package management systems have their ups and downs in but I've 
never had a problem with Slackware's simplicity and "full control".


Denise Bates wrote:
> Ravi Chemudugunta wrote:
>
>> if you want the most out of your box, I would go for ubuntu or debian.
>> ubuntu has a very large repository from which you can choose 
>> applications
>> from, even the more esoteric ones like the ones I use for music 
>> production.
>> there is also a large user base for ubuntu that post thousands of howtos
>> like (beryl on feisty fawn) on ubuntuforums.
>
> 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.
>
> regards,
> *********************************************
> Dr Denise J. Bates,
> PO Box 50,
> Meremere 2441
> New Zealand
> E-mail: dbates at iconz.co.nz
> Telephone 09-2336433
> Mobile 021-2541330
> *********************************************
>
> _______________________________________________
> AuckLUG mailing list
> AuckLUG at linux.net.nz
> http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aucklug
>
> !DSPAM:462f2755155471410093335!
>
>
>