Re: Red Hat 6.1

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 07:13:35PM +1000, Matthew John Palmer wrote:
> Slackware works well for servers and firewalls and such, though.  You can
> get it nice and small and slick and lean - and it doesn't encourage you to
> madly upgrade everything every ten minutes or so, with an apt-get
> --dist-upgrade - a good thing for stability (in general).

	Indeed. I don't know how much time and braincells I spent on
getting a minimal server with more "mainstream" distros and one disk
stuff. It would have been far easier to consider slackware for that. And
since I'm not the only sysadmin there, and the other person thinks that
you must be on bleeding edge of everything, apt-get is not spared (I
installed debian in the end). The uptime is of some 100 days so far, so
it's not bad. 

> That is why I keep my Slackware disks close to hand (hung on the belt next
> to the knife... <grin>) - never know when I might be called upon to do a quick

	Who needs a screwdriver to change that gfx card? }:-}
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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