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From: Simon Sibbez on 5 Oct 2009 12:57
dreaded wrote:

> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091005#feature

mooni kwote: "Unfortunately, the work involved in maintaining Slackware
generally means I end up turning to a different distro."

nuff said.


From: notbob on 5 Oct 2009 14:34
On 2009-10-05, Simon Sibbez <simon.sibbez(a)buerotiger.de> wrote:

> mooni kwote: "Unfortunately, the work involved in maintaining Slackware
> generally means I end up turning to a different distro."

> nuff said.

Sorry, but not "nuff". Here's the bottom line with Slackware:

"Slackware also gives the users absolute control over what goes onto
their system and how things are configured."

Yes, you can argue that other distros also have such control, but only
by users who have the knowledge to do so. Slack is still THE distro
for providing that knowledge.

nb

From: Keith Keller on 5 Oct 2009 14:31
On 2009-10-05, Simon Sibbez <simon.sibbez(a)buerotiger.de> wrote:
> dreaded wrote:
>
>> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091005#feature
>
> mooni kwote: "Unfortunately, the work involved in maintaining Slackware
> generally means I end up turning to a different distro."
>
> nuff said.

'Nuff said to what point? Do you think everyone thinks it's too much
work to maintain a Slackware install?

--keith

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From: Aaron W. Hsu on 5 Oct 2009 16:44
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:34:57 -0400, notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote:

> On 2009-10-05, Simon Sibbez <simon.sibbez(a)buerotiger.de> wrote:
>
>> mooni kwote: "Unfortunately, the work involved in maintaining Slackware
>> generally means I end up turning to a different distro."
>
>> nuff said.
>
> Sorry, but not "nuff". Here's the bottom line with Slackware:
>
> "Slackware also gives the users absolute control over what goes onto
> their system and how things are configured."
>
> Yes, you can argue that other distros also have such control, but only
> by users who have the knowledge to do so. Slack is still THE distro
> for providing that knowledge.

It is also THE distro for no-nonsense installations that you just want to
work and use without having to bother with learning many gotchas where the
distribution doesn't match the rest of the world. When I want a stable
system that will work well, not let me down, and won't require hours of my
time to make work just as I want it, I go for Slackware, not something
like RedHat or Ubuntu.

Aaron W. Hsu

--
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis
From: Loki Harfagr on 5 Oct 2009 17:29
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:31:44 -0700, Keith Keller did cat :

> On 2009-10-05, Simon Sibbez <simon.sibbez(a)buerotiger.de> wrote:
>> dreaded wrote:
>>
>>> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091005#feature
>>
>> mooni kwote: "Unfortunately, the work involved in maintaining Slackware
>> generally means I end up turning to a different distro."
>>
>> nuff said.
>
> 'Nuff said to what point? Do you think everyone thinks it's too much
> work to maintain a Slackware install?
>
> --keith

maybe a question of proxemy, I read Simon post in the
idea that he just wanted to say that as the "kwote" he
quoted was clearly giving a hint that the article writer
was not capable. I even thought that Simon was trying
something in the line of an 'impeachment'...
Now that I read some of your reactions to Simon's post
I'm wondering about how far can we read a word and
what the parallax error factor can be.
Well, excuse my french, I am what we is ;-)
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