I know why I've said in another thread that Slackware is not one of the big distributions. It's the oldest and by far the coolest but I'm sure it has a relativly small user base (compared to RedHat, Suse, Debian based stuff) and often it's just not considered for tests or third party softwaresqlpython wrote:Can't understand why the Testers left out of the Testing la Grande Dame' of Linuxes Slackware!
I left a comment and said so......
What I've learned in my early Linux years: I hate all distros with "-devel" packages because they make compiling stuff horrible. And I've always met a situation where I needed to compile something.GJones wrote:It does make up for that by making it an utter pain to compile anything
That is so true. No matter how huge the repo of a distro can be, it never has every package you might need. And besides compiling from source teaches you at least a little bit and gives you the full power of open-source software.thenktor wrote:What I've learned in my early Linux years: I hate all distros with "-devel" packages because they make compiling stuff horrible. And I've always met a situation where I needed to compile something.GJones wrote:It does make up for that by making it an utter pain to compile anything
