Re: Distribution for 'techies'

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From: "David G. Bell"
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <5gip68$pf@loth.demon.co.uk>
           dirk@loth.demon.co.uk "Steve Dodd" writes:

>  I suspect what I *may* do is to stick with Slackware, gradually rebuilding
> and reconfiguring various packages as I discover problems or they are upgraded
> I may also produce a small Slackware 'glitches' page, and possibly put up
> diffs that are required to get various packages to compile.. as you say, I
> guess it will depend on how much time I have free..

This would be a welcome service.  Slackware does seem to come with 
niggling little configuration bugs, and I've had problems several times 
with various missing device files in different Slackware distributions.

Simple, fairly obvious things, you would think....

-- 
David G. Bell -- Farmer, SF Fan, Filker, Furry, and Punslinger..

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From: dbell@zhochaka.demon.co.uk ("David G. Bell")
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Date: 1997/03/18
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