On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Byron A Jeff wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:09:12AM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> On 12/17/05, Shawn Tan wrote: >>> since we're in the business of pitching distros, i'd like to put a pitch in >>> for Slackware.. and staying updated with slackware-current is a breeze.. > > The problem with Slackware is that managing any software that isn't a Slackware > package isn't easy. I've in fact switched virtually all of my machines from > Slackware to one Debian variant or another precisely because of package management. I beg to disagree. I was in 'dependency hell' with Linux exactly once, and that was with Debian. I have previously used Slackware, Suse, Red Hat, and several flavors of *BSD, and am currently on a hevily modified Debian base (at least my workstation is). The only time I got bitten was with Debian. I think that you can get caught in dependency hell with any distribution. The only one that can be untangled relatively easily is the .tar.gz package model aided by a base of static-compiled essential binaries. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist