Quoting Robert Snyder <robertsnyder@gmail.com>:
> Well really it should be a shrine to slackware at the event as with out
> slackware there would be no debian. Dislike for Patrick's package
> decissions ( as it is my linux and I can put what ever I want or dont want
> in slackware ) Cause Ian to start the debian project. Like most people they
> started with Slackware and then decided they could do it better and some
> say they did but I dont see how you can improve slackware. Redhat and
> Debian are the two major distrobutions that were created because they
> belived they could do it better than Patrick.
Other distro's like RH or SuSE aren't better or worse than Slackware. They
might be *easier* for newbies to install and might have more eye candy by
default. They're just different, in my opinion. Not better or worse, just
different.
Slackware is so pure and easy to configure with it's textfile-based
configuration scripts, that you can make it into anything that you want. Want
RPM? No problem. Apt? No problem, slapt-get. XFCE? Easy. KDE 3.5? Sure. If
you dont' like what Slackware comes with it's very easy to mold it into what
you do want.
> Slack will always have it place but I see debian taking over on the
> corporate dekstop market. Ones like Xandros and Ubuntu... If I had to
> install a version of linux 200 times I am goingto pick the distro that
> stream line but still only have to require minium input to install. Yes i
> known for my 20 minute Full Slackware installs and have a KDE up and running
> with all the hardware working in 20 minuts but that is alot of typing to get
> everything setup that way.
I agree that some Debian-based distro's are very nice and very polished
and I'm all for any distro that is aimed to take over the business
desktop. More power
to them. No argument there... yet. Who knows? Maybe Ionux will be
the killer
Slack-based business distro in the future?
But if you have to manage a farm of desktops, for example, you'll have
some hard
drive mirroring tools that will make desktop replication easier. You'll only
need to install Slackware once. Besisdes, how much typing are you
doing during
a Slackware install? It's not any more than any other distro install. You
still have to choose your root password, host hame, networking setup, etc...
all of the same things that other distro's require. Have you installed SuSE
10.0 lately? It took me at least 4 times longer to install on my desktop than
Slackware 10.2. Granted SuSE installs a lot more bloat... er, I mean,
applications, but geez...
> I will always use Slackware on my personal
> desktop as I always have but on a end user side and something I would have
> to support on a daily basis it would be a debian based distro. ( either
> debian it self or Ubuntu or even Xandros if they offered good price on
> volume licenceing.)
This is something that I can actually speak to with complete
confidence. I run
a web hosting company and admin several websites. Before I moved to the Plesk
hosting control panel, all of my servers were Slackware 10.2-based and you
can't beat the licensing price ($0) for unlimited servers. Unfortunately,
Plesk doesn't support Slackware, so I migrated my servers to the next best
thing which it does support, Debian. :) But, Slackware is just as
easy, if not
easier, to admin as any other distro.
-RM
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