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My workstation OS: Slackware (NewsForge)
Michael Stibane
reviews Slackware 10 in a NewsForge article.
"Working as a freelance Linux trainer and writer for a few German Linux magazines, I have to test a lot of software. If it's bleeding edge and packaged as RPM or DEB it usually causes major problems when I install the software on Debian or RPM-based distros. It's a pain to bring Debian package management back to a normal state once it's out of sync after a dpkg -i --force-things command. By contrast, there is nothing like Slackware's tgz packaging without dependency checks (except compiling from source). Install the package, run it from a terminal, and see which libraries are not found. Install those too and usually everything is fine. Slackware also takes RPM packages without questions if you supply the --nodeps switch."
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My workstation OS: Slackware (NewsForge) Posted Dec 16, 2004 17:43 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Has anyone heard how Patrick V. is doing? His last post was Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 25) and I've been rather concerned...
My workstation OS: Slackware (NewsForge) Posted Dec 18, 2004 3:28 UTC (Sat) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469) [Link] http://slackbook.lizella.net/pat.txt
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