From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett Person) Subject: Re: SLS/Slackware/What? Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 07:59:51 GMT
In article <2uLBac2w165w@works.uucp> ferret@works.uucp (Dave Ferret) writes:
>Pardon me, I just got here.
>
>I've only heard of the SLS release, is Slackware another packaged
>release, or what? How many others than SLS are there?
Yes. It is another BETTER package. Slackware's maintainer is much more
responsive to updates and general support than the SLS people are. I think
this is because SLS is really intended for sale as a commercial product.
The SLS betas seem to just be proof-or-concept type things. They work, but
you have to be pretty good at unix in general to get functional use out of
them. There are many bugs and inconsistancies in SLS. The man pages could
stand some real work, There are many duplicate executables in /bin
/sr/bin and elsewhere. There are also duplicate man pages.
SLS X is difficult to get running on even supported video cards.
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