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On 25 Jun 98 12:51:56 GMT, Larry <larry@over.here.com> wrote:
>
>>Yeah, yeah, it's out of date. But Linux is based on UNIX,
>>and UNIX isn't the newest thing on the computing scene itself.
>>Maybe newer isn't always better?
>
>Have to disagree here. No way is Slackware out of date.
>I've been using it for a long time and every new install is just
>as up to date as all the rest of the Distributions. In fact from what
>I read on here with all the redhat problems, I would venture to say 
>Slackware's libraries are more up to date than RH's.

	It's true that Slack is still an up to date distribution
in that it hasn't sat idly by while the rest have moves on.  It's
libraries are behind the curve in that they are still libc5 but that's
what's making it a little easier to work with at the moment.  Once the
rest of the distributions migrate up to glibc (libc6) they will have
the same kind of growing pains that RH is having now.

>I never have the install problems that Redhat users have, including 
>compiling and installing apps.
>
>I have installed KDE on three separate Slack systems without a hitch
>and most of the mail I see on the KDE list is from RH users complaining 
>KDE won't run or some portion of it won't work.  
>
>If you get to know Slackware, Which I admit may be a little tougher than
>the other Distributions, you will have a VERY dependable linux OS.
>And the newer versions can be found on ftp://sunsite.unc.edu and all it's
>mirrors.

	There's on real reason for people not to use it and one personal
reason I don't use it.	The first is that it doesn't have a package
management tool that handles dependencies (unless they've switched to
RPM while I wasn't looking).  No one doing any kind of production or
mission critical work with linux should be using a distribution w/o this.
The second, and personal, reason is that I much prefer the SV init style
of things rather than the BSD style that Slack uses.  It's so much easier
and cleaner.

	Bottom line, though, is that you use what works for you.

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