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Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486
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Liam Proven |
Subject: |
Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486 |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:53 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) |
> I like Slackware...:-)
I don't know it well, but it fits our needs up front.
> One reason is I believe Slackware is more viable is that, unlike
> Debian, Slackware has no package management system in place that
> performs dependancy checking.
That is its greatest weakness, I think.
> However, my fear is that if
> Debian is selected, APT and RPM will too often compete
Why?
-- human nature
> guarantees that a "Rule-Debian" system will be updated with APT on a
> regular basis, and RPM dependancies will be broken just as
> regularly.
I don't understand this.
> 1. Publish basic written directions to install a minimal Slackware
> system consisting of some packages from disksets "A" and "N" only.
> This gets a base system with some networking up and running.
>
> 2. A custom shell script to be run as root that uses the "installpkg"
> command to install a subset of the official Slackware packages to
> prepare an RPM oriented Slackware system. The shell script chould
> create SYSV style initialization scripts and symlinks as needed, to
> mimic a Red Hat system. This script would be run immediately after
> rebooting the system following the minimal installation in step 1
> above. Easily fit on a floppy.
Why RPM?
Why SysV init?
> The only other "thoughts" that come to mind this morning (I need more
> coffee), is that AbiWord is smaller than WordPerfect 8.0 and handles
> XML (and is included with Slackware)
>From what I've seen - not a lot - it's less complete, has poorer general
file format support (XML? Who cares?), poorer help &c.
WP is bigger, slower, semicommercial (who cares?), is old, and is a bit
ideosyncratic. Works, though, and is a good solid product.
> -- "ee" is a great text editor to
> use as a substitute for vi
Not seen it. I'll look.
> -- "xf86config" wnd "SuperProbe" are pretty
> reliable for X3 based systems
xf86config is /horrid./ Usually works, yes, but easy, friendly or pretty,
no.
> and Slackware already includes an easy to use ncurses based tool to
> configure pppd. Pppd can then be configured for demand dialing...
Ah, OK. Not seen that either.
--
Liam Proven http://welcome.to/liamsweb
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, (continued)
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486,
Liam Proven <=
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Colin Mattoon, 2002/10/29
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/29
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Liam Proven, 2002/10/29
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/30
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Colin Mattoon, 2002/10/30
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Marco Fioretti, 2002/10/31
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Marco Fioretti, 2002/10/31
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/31
- [Rule-list] Not so many rpms need i386, Richard Kweskin, 2002/10/30
- Re: [Rule-list] Not so many rpms need i386, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/30