[school-discuss] [offtopic] Slackware/Debian question

[Michael Shigorin <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:00:02AM -0800, lee rodgers wrote:
> (FWIW, all the aforementioned are Slackware variants as is
> Edu-nix (or is that EdUnix?). I've never tried Slackware,
> proper, but so far love it's progeny....

Just in case -- I gladly mirror EduNix but oppose Slackware here
in Ukraine (well, in Russia too).  While it doesn't really matter
what's under LiveCD's hood since it's readonly, with installed
and managed system things are completely different.  Especially
with multitude of installed and managed systems when the only
more or less mitigating factor to dumbness of Slackware's tools
could be a *single* TS or a single image to be deployed (e.g.
with SystemImager.org).

So while you do mention exact things that someone got right,
better don't mistake small stuff for big one.  The problem's
the time for those involved with the system(s), and if students
are that inclined, then it might become (latent) problem as well
since getting debianish habits is *way* more productive and
professional than grabbing slackwarish experience and seeing
every problem as a nail then...

> As for Debian variants.... I'm trying out Freespire,
> Studio-To-Go & Mandriva this week.... 

FWIW Mandriva never has been a Debian elk, although they've
borrowed quite a lot of things from it.

(disclaimer: I don't run Debian derivatives and have quite 
a few criticisms for them, but respect the project very much;
the opinions are based on analysing approaches, reading mailing
lists [archives] and talking with people who use either Debian
or Slackware for several, usually next to ten, years)

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