[ale] Anyone checked out Slackware 12 yet?

[James P. Kinney III]

Good!

I keep waiting for the RH crowd to change the kickstart to have
@kitchesink option that _does install everything. With the extras repo
now merged into the main system that might result in more that 10GB of
stuff on an install.

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:00 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I beg to differ - on my FC4:
> 
> rpm -q kitchensink
> package kitchensink is not installed
> 
> :p
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Bob
> Toxen
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:57 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Anyone checked out Slackware 12 yet?
> 
> I will order SW12 today.
> 
> I'm quite happy running SW11 on several desktops, including laptops,
> as well as servers.  Slackware offers smaller desktops that start up
> much faster than the other "everything and the kichen sink Distros".
> 
> Bob Toxen
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> 
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:36:18AM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > Just read the release announcement and it's rather exciting to me.
> > Finally, it seems that Slackware has caught up!
> 
> > I am thinking that I am going to try it out, but was wondering if
> anyone
> > else is going to do the same?  Is anyone still using Slackware as a
> > primary desktop system?  Bob?
> 
> >     ??? Mike
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