22 Jun
2004
22 Jun
'04
9:51 p.m.
Patrick Kaell wrote:
* No dependency hell! Slackware install tools,
configuration tools and
boot scripts only require the shell.
That's astonishing. My understanding was that Slackware does not manage
dependencies among packages, so you have to manage them yourself via the
error messages you get during installation.
Is that incorrect?
* Slackware is the most UNIXish Linux distro around (I
have experience
with Solaris, SunOS, AIX, Tru64, HP/UX and *BSD). The init system is an
enhanced BSD style init with support for SYSV init scripts for
compatibility reasons. The only other Linux distro which uses BSD style
init scripts is Gentoo.
... and I thought that *BSD was more 'unix-like' than any Linux
distribution, because it has been around long before Linux started to
exist ?!
Regards,
-pu