Right, I agreed with your first email and I understand your point because
I lived that too when I started using Linux.
Diego
> Finally, I agree with the BSD point, but I disagree with the server
>> point. I think a server is supposed to be even more updated that a
>> normal workstation. There are different factors that influence in that
>> for example security.
>
> Sure, you do security updates, but installing the latest version of
> apache or postfix isn't likely to require rebuilding thirty or fifty
> libraries, like, for instance, installing a GNOME application, which
> requires new versions of gnome libs, which in turn requires new versions
> of libpng, libxpm, orbit, which in turn have their own dependencies, and
> so on. The point to which I came was that I was spending much more time
> building and upgrading software (this was a pentium-pro 200 machine)
> than I was actually using the system. That's really what pushed me to
> move that machine to Debian. I can build and install all the software I
> want, but I'm not forced to waste all my cycles compiling dependency
> trees; I can use them for actual work. I'm not flaming Slackware - it's
> a fine distribution. However, someone asked why it's not "popular" or
> "advocated" like, say, RedHat, and I gave some reasons.
>
> Levi
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