Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
Gilles Pelletier <gipe@videotron.ca> writes:
> How the hell is Volkerding and his small pack managing to put out Slack 8
> with XFree86 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.5, KDE 2.1.2, GNOME 1.4, glibc 2.2.3,
> Mozilla, Galeon, Nautilus, ProFTPD, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, mod_ssl, mod_php...
> and all the usual utilities, hardly 3 months after Mandrake rushed out
> their broken down distro? Has anybody heard that Slackware isn't safe
> : ) ?
Debian has all of the latest and greatest in Debian/unstable, and
Debian/unstable is probably significantly more stable and consistent
than Slackware.
> Is apt-get really worth this huge delay?
Yes.
> We do plan to teach the newbie some fundamentals.
I would venture that installing potato, then upgrading to woody or sid
is still less complicated than installing Slackware.
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