On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:26:05PM +0800, eric pareja wrote: > Your assertions about low-hardware installations using Slackware applies > to other Linux distributions as well. Replace Slackware with some other > distribution in your statements and you'll see that Slackware does not > have a monopoly of this area.
Well, this is true, but of course Slackware makes doing the things he's said a lot easier. A modern distribution like Red Hat 7.x is next to impossible to install minimalistically on a machine with less than 1G of hard disk space, many thanks to the bizarre dependencies of many of the packages. It seems that they have an outstanding policy since Red Hat 7.0 of making only binary packages that are fully Kerberos and LDAP-enabled wherever applicable, which frustrates people making low-footprint installs to no end. How many small offices actually have a full Kerberos system deployed, or require an LDAP server I wonder, that they decide they HAVE to build such support in all the time. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <dido at imperium dot ph> +63(2)8183151 Software Developer, Imperium Technology Inc. +63(917)4458925 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
