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On 11 Mar 1997 21:55:19 -0000, dirk@loth.demon.co.uk (Steve Dodd)
wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I've finally had it up to _here_ with Slackware. When I first started off
>with Linux and knew nothing about it, Slackware was wonderful. Now I'm older
>and wiser (by 2+ years or so), I seem to keep finding little niggles in
>Slackware 96. I had problems installing it ( /dev/console missing, syslogd
>dumping core), along with all sorts of other things. The thing that finally
>flipped me out tonight was finding /usr/include/ndbm.h and dbm.h missing - 
>a small thing I know, but on top of everything else I feel it is time for
>a change..

That was pretty much the reason I dropped Slackware back on 2.2.0. :)

>Are there any distributions out there aimed at 'techies'? In other words,
>that expect you to know what you're doing on the install, but actually provide
>packages with all the bits present (and working), etc, etc.

I expect a lot of people will suggest Debian. I haven't tried it, so I
can't comment, but it seems to require a lot of palaver to install,
compared with Red Hat, which I use.

Red Hat asks as many questions as are needed (IMHO) - no more. Most
things work out of the box, once you've worked through the errata list
on their web site. Contrary to popular belief, Red Hat doesn't stop
you from using .tgz's or any other Slackware-isms, but you will need
to get used to get used to the fact that RH (and Debian?) complies to
the Linux Filesystem Standard, unlike Slackware.

> Alternatively,
>does anyone know of any 'bootstrap' distributions that would provide me with
>enough of a working system to build everything else from scratch? Thanks in

Drop-In Linux (DILINUX)?

>advance..
>
>	Cheers,
>		Steve

Regards,
Alex.
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