On Friday 04 Mar 2005 06:26, Owen Synge owens.singh@ntlworld.com wrote:
There seems to be an awful lot of other stuff in there that Slackware doesn't seem to need to provide the same apps, are all these dependencies really necessary?
What do you think? I find debian a good flexable OS, Would you ever ever try rhythembox on a slackware box?
Undoubtly it is, I've got the full set of CD's for 'Sarge' 13 Disks. Slackware comes on a 4 CD set two of whcih are source, extra packages and retired packages which may be needed by some, and the full Slackware Manual; on the Second disk is KDE and Gnome as they got too big to stay on the first disk with the rest of the distribution, in fact I it only needed the first disk, (to get a running OS with KDE and Gnome), when I started using it.
As for Rythmbox, I'll have a lok at it and see if I can learn to use it, I might be getting to be too and drugged a dog to teach new tricks to, (I'm still trying to learn Emacs, and get mysql to start on and run on Slackware, permissions thing apparently but I'll get there).
Thank you so much for your help Owen, Haven't seen you for years, literally. Not since a very hot meeting in Syleham one summer.
Hi John
If you find 13 (I thought it was 14 now..) disks for Sarge to be too much, an alternative is to roll your own distribution. I have at various points used both Red Hat and Debian to build custom distributions for a project. The Knoppix/Morphix live systems are satisfactory for demo CDs, but lack a flexable installers and can be tiresome to modify. The Red Hat rpm dependency hell and package management just drove me mad in the end, however, the installer is a damned fine package. The current builds use a mix of Red Hat's anaconda with Debian Sarge packages (with a couple of custom debs of my own) - One 74min CD has enough space for KDE, a small selection of desktop/office apps, 3D cad/cam package, network tools, and the bare minimum of the GNU gcc tools for compiling kernels. There are a few extra support packages, but somehow, I don't think you would want the whole list..
Regards, Paul.
Side note: I must be doing some thing right - The servers get an average of 1Tb/mo. downloads !
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:26, John Seago wrote:
What do you think? I find debian a good flexable OS, Would you ever ever try rhythembox on a slackware box?
Undoubtly it is, I've got the full set of CD's for 'Sarge' 13 Disks.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:51:16 +0000, Paul bdi-emc@ntlworld.com wrote:
Hi John
If you find 13 (I thought it was 14 now..) disks for Sarge to be too much, an alternative is to
... only download the first CD and install any missing packages from the Internet, especially as you'll want to do an apt-get -u dist-upgrade when Sarge is properly released, and probably a few more times inbetween now and then.
I am running i386 Sarge (with the Gnome desktop), and my apt archive is only about 664MB. What fills up the other 12*640MB?
Tim.
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