Re: other distros

[Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org>]

On Saturday 12 April 2003 03:08, Warwick Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > Slackware also tends to follow the traditional UNIX philosophy of
> > assuming that you know what you're doing a lot more than Debian or
> > RPM-based systems. Actually, it tends to be more like other UNIX
> > systems than any other Linux distribution I've used - I think
> > learning HP-UX and OpenBSD (and several others) with a Slackware
> > background caused me a lot fewer headaches than Debian or Red Hat
> > with a Slackware background.
>
<snip>
>
> its nice to work with a distro that doesnt have an rpm or apt based
> package manager coz it makes ppl think about what they want the
> package to do, and configure it accordingly, as its too easy to
> install a package and let it configure itself (often incorrectly and
> insecurely).

LFS also serves the same purpose I guess.

Cheers

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