slackware has an excellent, elegant package management system. and best of all? it's industry standard. the last time i looked, everybody had tar and gunzip installed.
slackware keeps track of the packages installed, etc. of course, there isn't a large package repository.
simplicity is the key.
and
use the source.
"...who's using slackware?" "whoever was using it 4 years ago."
in fact, there has been a significant increase in slackware use recently, and it is expected to increase with the release of slackware-7.0 that is complete with glibc2.1.2, xfre86 3.3.5, october gnome, kde 1.1.2, netscape 4.7, and linux 2.2.12.
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slackware has an excellent, elegant package management system. and best of all? it's industry standard. the last time i looked, everybody had tar and gunzip installed.
slackware keeps track of the packages installed, etc. of course, there isn't a large package repository.
simplicity is the key.
and
use the source.
"...who's using slackware?" "whoever was using it 4 years ago."
in fact, there has been a significant increase in slackware use recently, and it is expected to increase with the release of slackware-7.0 that is complete with glibc2.1.2, xfre86 3.3.5, october gnome, kde 1.1.2, netscape 4.7, and linux 2.2.12.