On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > Shankar Viswanathan wrote: >> Are there any other distros that have a Slackware-like configuration >> system (i.e. simple rc files) but with better package management? > > What's different about the "simple rc files" approach that you like > compared to how configuration is handled in Debian? > > Debian may not use "simple rc files", but it is fully configurable using > text files (largely by tweaking parameters in /etc/defaults).
I did not mean to imply Debian's configuration method is too complex, but rather I wanted to know if some other distro uses the *same* rc file mechanism as Slackware but with better package management. FYI, I ran Slackware for almost a decade starting early 1995, and I was able to configure it without too much help (*). The initial Debian configuration was a lot harder for me, even with the benefit of Google searches. Perhaps it was because I had to unlearn Slackware first. -Shankar (*) I'm not counting the port number magic I had to learn to make the kernel recognize my ISA sound card. I think I got the basic steps for that from a post on comp.os.linux, Oh, and there was some Modeline thing I had to do to get X working. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
