[ale] Favorite distros

Joseph A. Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 26 12:53:13 EDT 2002


Matthew Brown wrote:
> 
> Well, I don't know much about Slackware at all, but I hope its package
> management is a little better than gentoo's seems to be.  I would have
> thought that with everyone else having something to handle this that the
> gentoo folks would have been able to just pick up one of the good ones.

Slack doesn't have much package management to speak of.
It's more of a "tar xf thing.tgz ; cd thing ; ./configure
; make ; make install" kind of distro :-)

-- 
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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