On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:50:11PM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> |I'm drooling - and the sourceforge ftp site (and all the
> |other mirrors I could think of) are heavily saturated now.
>
> A really sensible distro IMO .. makes a LOT more sense
> allowing people to choose whether they want to use tried and
> tested stable stuff (2.2 kernel 2.95 gcc etc) or cutting
> edge stuff like 2.4 kernel and gcc 3.0.
What makes it more impressive is the fact that most of the
Slackware development team (inclusive of Pat V_) got the sack
just a few weeks ago from their parent employer. "Trimming the
fat" as they call it, in these days of IT glut !
>
> Wish RH and others would give that kind of an option too!
>
> Kingsly
>
I do not think RH/ Mandrake/ SuSE and other commercial distros
holding the banner of "latest and greatest" aloft would ...
Debian however has this system already since conception with 3
flavours concurrently supported all along ...
This is the *first time* I have seen Slack offer this kind of
option though !
USM Bish
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