[ale] Slackware questions for Slackware users

[Drag0n]

One thing to take in to consideration right now is how long it will take
to download that iso. Slack9.1 was release 2 days ago and the mirrors
are all being hammered hard, it might be a week or 2 before a reasonable
download time may be available again. But the best is worth waiting
for<g>

Drag0n
dragon at atlantacon.org

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 23:10, Greg wrote:
> I should preface this to say that I honestly hope that this does not devolve
> into some distro religious war or a thread hi-jacking into religion,
> politics, or any other discussion.  I would like to find out more about
> *this exact* distro before going to the trouble of downloading an ISO and
> playing with it.
> 
> I have only tried Mandrake (3 yrs ago), RH 7.3, and Suse 8.2 and OpenBSD -
> so I have some questions about the Slackware Linux distro.  I am looking for
> some type of Linux distro that is less commercial than RH, Suse, etc.. to
> run on servers.
> 
> 1.  What do you think are the main differences between Slackware and the
> rest ?
> 
> 2.  How do you update ? is this the one that uses the apt-get stuff or is it
> via rpm's ?  The website only had a package/port  installer that looked
> similar to the BSD type system - which is fine by me.
> 
> 3. Can a base install of only the kernel be achieved, without all of the
> unneeded (by me) crap of Sendmail, bind, mutt, etc., etc, .... ?
> 
> 4.  What is it about Slackware that you prefer to run it over other distros
> ?
> 
> Thanks to all that reply,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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