RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
I'd say go with Woody (compared to Slack), provided you can do a boot off of
CD...I wasn't aware of the boot-disk issue. I started with Potato about 8
months ago, and just apt-get updated to Woody in the last few weeks.
Tried Slack way back (a number of years ago) and found it more difficult for a
newbie (I was that at the time). For a true newbie, I'd say go SuSE, or
Mandrake. After cutting your teeth on a version, then slide into Debian (or
something Debian based...like Progeny). In short, I've never been impressed
with Slackware.
On 15-Aug-2001 Gilles Pelletier wrote:
> We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and
> Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of installing
> dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning
> towards Debian. The newbie, even though his concerns for security are
> limited, wouldn't have to care too much about it.
>
> Only a "tiny" problem remains. Potato is not up to date and it's apparently
> difficult to upgrade software unless you get patches at specialised places
> ( http://kde.tdyc.com for the KDE 2.x serie, for instance. ) You then must
> hope the patch is well done.
>
> We though about installing Woody, but, as you people know, the boot
> disquettes don't boot yet. Potato must first be installed and an upgrade
> made to Woody. Newbies might not appreciate...
> As for Woody, once again, it's going to be out... when it's ready, which
> might as well mean in June 2002, one year after Slack was out.
>
> 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 : ) ?
>
> Is apt-get really worth this huge delay? We do plan to teach the newbie
> some fundamentals.
>
> BTW, in case you wouldn't know, even newbies like to be cutting edge...
> even more so than oldies I'd say : )
>
> GP
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