30 Sep
2014
30 Sep
'14
11:31 a.m.
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Ewan Slater wrote:
On 27 September 2014 19:52, James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
"But isn't it great to have a choice!" But the choice isn't so great. Each distro has it's problems. I'd like a slackware based one as the modular system is more stable than deb or rpm. I don't think there's a great difference between the two.
I tried Slackware recently. It was fun in a retro way for a bit, but the lack of package dependency management and the slackbuilds system soon got tiresome. So my geriatric laptop is back to running Debian / XFCE.
Ewan
I found Slackware a bit 'retro' as you say. Salix is an alternative and Porteus could well develop into the main distro of the slack family.
james