[ale] Favorite distros

[Joseph A. Knapka]

"Christopher R. Curzio" wrote:
> 
> Ehh, are you doing an untar and stuff on Slackware .tgz files?

No, from source tarballs. I build most things from source
on the Slack boxen, after the initial install.

> You know
> you can just do installpkg thing.tgz?

Yes :-)

> (At least, if it's not source. I've
> almost never come across source bundled as a .tgz.)

I seem to encounter these fairly regularly *shrug*.

[scissors of brevity] 

-- Joe
  "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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