Distributions with speakup modified kernels?

[Gregory Nowak]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:24:06PM -0000, Darragh wrote:
> Thanks, that's exactly what I'm looking for.  Why do you like it?  Is it the
> first distro you've used? Probably not but worth a try any way.  

Yes, it's the first distro I've used. However, to be fair, I will
mention that I have recently started using and exploring debian. While
I am really impressed with debian's package system as I've mentioned
here before, my other boxes are still running slackware, and will
probably be doing so for the foreseeable future.

> How do you
> find installing and uninstalling applications?  What's it like to update?

If there is a crunch to slackware, the above has to be it. Installing
the distro is fine, but in the past at least, the tgz package format
was not on a level of rpm for example. However, as we were told
recently on the list, somebody has supposedly developed a package
management system for slackware that is supposedly really good. I
haven't used it myself yet, so am repeating what I read at this
point. I will tell you though that slack 9.0 came out with more
improved package management tools, which make upgrading a package less
painful then in previous releases.

> Did you download it from the net or buy the discs from a distributor, why
> did you choose what ever method?
> 

So far, I've simply downloaded the disks, instead of buying
them. Although buying the 4 disk set gave you a few extra things in
the past (don't know if that's true still as of slack 9.1), they
weren't extras that I particularly needed. I also liked the fact at
first that I could try out the os/distribution without paying for more
then a blank cd (a refreshing thought after having put money into
Billy boy's wallet before), and downloading it meant that I didn't have to wait
for it to get shipped to me.

Hth.

Greg
P.S. Compared to debian at least, slackware doesn't have as many
binary packages ready to install. This means that you will be building
some stuff from source, which is not a bad thing once you get used to
it.


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