On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:22:31PM +0000, Ray Kelly mentioned:
> However, Slackware as a distro, while seriously less than ideal for
> deployment in a large scale production environment (I think Debian wins
> there), is probably as good an "advanced" Linux training tool as is
> possible. There's bugger all frills to it & it _forces_ the user to know
> their environment at a relativly low level. Also I've generally found
> that once an admin can configure a slackware box to do X, Y & Z. They're
> at home doing it on anything that's not NT based. all that being said,
> do I use it myself? No I don't, cause it's a pig to configure :)
Very true. In fact, there are few tools that can teach someone the value
of a decent packaging system more than Slackware. But arguments like "It's
good *because* it's crap" don't work with me.
john
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