[rescue] Re: Re: Small serial terminal

[Kevin]

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This is true, however with Slackware, since it is more of a
bare bones approach to begin with, it doesn't necessitate
doing as much ripping up as does RedHat requires.  Slackware
doesn't patch the kernel by default, so i can use their source
tree without issues.  RedHat almost always patches their
source tree.  This caused a major PITA for me when i was first
learning linux.  Their package management system is not
any where as intrusive as RPM so i can leave it there and not
worry about it even though i'll be using source tarballs
instead.  Slackware also doesn't install a million and one
config files for packages i told it not to install to begin
with, RedHat does.

Unless you're running LFS, there is always going to be clean
up work to do after an install.  It's just with Slackware i
can just add what i want as opposed to removing what i don't
want.

My philosophy towards RedHat, in some ways mirrors my
philosophy towards Microsoft.  Don't use it unless it's 100%
necessary, but if you are going to use it, do it their way. 
Don't try to go against the grain with them.

Thus far this has worked very well for me and i'll continue to
do so.

/KRM

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:08:09 -0600
"Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net> wrote:
> 
> I don't see why people gripe about Redhat 6.2 and later so
> much.  In my experience it is just as good as any other
> linux (except perhaps Debian).  Just like in the other
> linuxs, you just have to chuck the package management
> system, recompile everything from scratch (especially the
> kernel) that you can, and redo the init scripts to your
> liking. That's the procedure I use for slackware, that's the
> procedure I use for redhat, that's the procedure I use for
> Suse, and that would probably be the procedure I'd use for
> mandrake, if I'd ever had a reason to use it. The
> distribution's just is just to get linux onto the computer
> somehow. After that, the rest is up to you.

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