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Re: [PLUG] socf: questions
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fourje wrote:
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> GOOD :-)
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> > >Also - are you using Slack. 7 ? If so - what's it like??
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> > Well, I think it's all right, but I have no basis for comparison (other
> <BIG SNIP>
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> Thanks for the input - I started with Slackware 3.0, and have used 4.0 -
> just wondering if 7.0 was worth the visit.
Slack 7 is good, especially because of glibc2. I think Patrick was
conservative about the migration, and was wiser than some other distros.
I too was conservative, and did completely fresh installs on backed-up
machines that were previously 3.x(libc5) which reduced my chances for
nightmares. Then I restored the parts of userland, var, and etc I
needed. The kernel is 2.2.x and you get to play with ipchains rather
than with ipfwadm for firewalling...
ifconfig behaves a little differently, and nfs seems a little more
peppy. PCI (VIA chipset), scsi, and ide drives do not play nicely
together, but I think this is deeper than a distro problem.
glibc2 seems to build bigger binaries than libc5, but hey, that's
progress, right? Patrick is also using /opt and including
rpm in slack 7, which is also a change, I think.
I basically just like Slackware because my first install was with
a stack of Slack floppies and Matt Welsh's install guide, which was
slack-centric.
Chris
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