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Re: Slackware <---> Red Hat




I am forwarding this because of the infomation in the last paragraph.

On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Shai Almog wrote:

> I'd hate to disagree but as a newbie who used Slackware a while back and 
> now installed Debian I found it to be much easier than Slackware.

Hmmm. I am loth to agree _OR_ disagree with you. I am anything BUT a 
newbie, yet I hated `dselect` and only used `dpkg`. `dselect`, imho, is 
not fot for use, yet.

> True the documentation is not as complete yet but the installation is much 
> smoother and hardware configuration is a breeze compared to the greave 

s/greave/grief/

> i suffered from Slackware (it might have improved since i have used it).

Hmmm. depends. Where did Slack give you problems? Oh - by the way, Debian 
is joining the Linux FT distribution by becoming POSIX certified and 
providing its own suite of test suites.

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