[ale] Linux Desktop Costs

[Dow Hurst]

Hey!  Thanks for that!  I never heard of that.  I like tgz format since 
it is familiar in all Unix software installs.  I'll check it out.
Dow


Jonathan Rickman wrote:

>On Wednesday 27 August 2003 19:22, Dow Hurst wrote:
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>>money with the next version of their product.  If you can get the
>>hardware recognized under Gentoo then your on an easier path to stay up
>>to date with the current software packages that are in the ports
>>collection.  SuSE, Mandrake, and RedHat are really good at hardware
>>detection for the current distros but the latest cutting edge hardware
>>probably won't work right.  This ACPI stuff being sold in new
>>motherboards is a real pain.  Since your dealing with older stuff the
>>hwinfo tool or hardware browser tool would be quite useful under the
>>main distros.  There really isn't per seat licensing for Linux except in
>>terms of commercial support.  The distro companies are developing
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>I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record with the Slackware bit, 
>but I see another opportunity to enlighten someone and dispel another 
>Slackware myth. You can keep Slackware up to date just as easy as any other 
>distro. By using swaret (http://swaret.xbone.be/), you can pick your 
>poison. Stay current with security updates (so rare that it's almost 
>pointless) or you can go so far as to maintain a complete build of /current 
>(ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current) which really 
>doesn't lag far behind Gentoo and Mandrake and in my experience is stable 
>enough for production use in all but the most critical environments. I ran 
>/current on laptop, desktop, and server hardware from the release of 8.0 
>until 9.0 was released without any problems whatsoever. Swaret is similar 
>to apt-get in function, and it is a shell script so it is easily 
>customizable. 
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