On 12/19/05, Peter wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > > It is said that carbon-copy method will be the preferred method of > > deploying software in the Windows world once .Net is really kicking in. > > I think that your statement made someone somewhere just picked up a > chair ... Why? I think it is good that they know the problem of DLL hell and try to correct that problem. I hope that Linux could solve the dependency hell problem as well. > > The problem with Slackware for me is actually that it is no longer a > > popular distribution. As I need to search for solutions of various problems > > I'd better stick to popular distributions and normally the latest distributions. > > That is why I chose Ubuntu and now choose FC4. > > Slackware has nothing to do with popularity imho. It's a workhorse. Some > work required [tm] to make it do what you need but after that it's a > piece of industrial equipment. I only say it is not for not-so-experienced Linux users like me. A workhorse does not mean it is good for me. There are many workhorses (perhaps Solaris is one of them) out there. I understand Linux people take pride in their preferred distributions. But I think all the major distributions have their strong points. Slackware is still alive, so it must have some good reasons. But I will stay with the more popular distributions. Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist