Mihai Bisca wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Keith Duthie wrote:
>
> > > [Ah-oh, I'm probably going to start a "distribution" war with this, but
> > > quite frankly I don't care. :) Point is that slugware is now a
> > > historical fossil that has no place except for very specific purposes
> > > as a hacker's installation.]
> > Slackware still has its uses. For anyone who's used to it, it can be
> > annoying to move to a distribution which stuffs about with buggy libc
> > libraries and strange directories all over the place.
>
> I agree. Also, I hate rpm and dpkg. These tools are too restrictive.
> Keeping the packages tar.gzipped is simple and effective and gives the
> user more freedom, in true Unix tradition. Debian takes forever to
> install and RedHat is probably going to become the Windoze of the Linux
> world. It fucks up even the prompter... :-)
>
It's OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really didn't mean to start all this. Each
distribution
has it's own strongpoints and drawbacks, I'm sure, but each one of us can
make the decision on his/her own about which to use. The great thing is
that we have this wonderful network of knowledgable (I think I spelled that
right?!?!) people helping each other out. That makes this mail list more
powerful than anything any amount of money can buy.
Thank you all for pointing me in the right direction. When I typed
"ldd netscape", I noticed that the library file netscape was trying to load is
in
a directory different from where it was looking. I created a symbolic link to
the file in the directory where netsape was expecting to find it and all is
working just fine.
Rem
