Honestly Mike... I think it started out that way. You'd have to find a
serious Slacker to confirm that though. I think most people still
install it via FTP, but basically the install is a FreeBSD install. It
installs everything from source, I think it may use RPMs, but as I said,
I didn't have it installed long enough as I needed that hardware to
build a test machine. (Work calls, and the play things get wiped out!
:0( OH well, huh?)
I think it's a good idea that people who consider themselves advanced
users, install and play with as many distros as possible. This is more
feasable for me since I have the hardware to do so. I have a machine
that I could wipe out once a week and install something new if I felt
the need to do so. But it helps verse the user in how other distros
work.
That's one reason why I've tried so many *nix distros. Heck, I've even
installed Linux in VMware! Couldn't get it to load Xwindows, but dang
it I tried!
But I try and keep an unbiased look at things like this. When
recommending to a client what OS they should use for an install, ya get
pretty good at that.
I like Mandrake for a workstation. I spend all day making sure things
work and stay working on servers, or fixing things on other
workstations, I don't want to spend part of that day fixing my
workstation as well! Now that I've installed Mandrake so many times, it
takes me 2 hours to install and configure my machine, and then I don't
have to do anything but check the logs. :0)
tdh
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| On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:18:41 -0400
| Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
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| Nice tidy summation, Tim. You hit most of the major Linux and *BSD
| distros in a fairly unimpassioned, relatively _nuetral_ manner. I once
| read of Slackware (on another list I believe) that i wa not really a
| distro, at all, just a tarball of someone's hard drive ;o)
| Mike
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