Comments on: Slackware Linux Installation Methods

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:07:33 +0000

I haven’t looked at the site for over a year now. It never really went anywhere, so I’m leaving it for history now

By: drew

drew — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:36:38 +0000

Hmmm.. I don’t think I ever read your About page til now Ray. And I forgot all about your clockwatching.net site, seem it hasn’t gone far but I love most of the pictures you have on it. I turned my clockwatching.net into my tech blog, actually more like some of the things I’ve done at work to use for reference, to share, etc.

By: od

od — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:42:18 +0000

Thanks

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:11:42 +0000

od, welcome to the site and thanks for the comments. The “about” bit has been right off my radar for ages, one day I may update it…

By: od

od — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:32:03 +0000

Ok, this has nothing to do with the posting, but I really like your blog. Especially the ‘About’ section. It’s one of the best that I’ve ever read. I’ve had few blogs back in 2000, but I have stopped blogging because I was so unfocused. Since the past few months I feel like blogging again, but am having problem with direction, and till now I have yet to decide whether I should blog, or not to blog. Your ‘About’ section was very well described. Btw I stumbled on your blog while googling.

By: drew

drew — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:45:50 +0000

Well, I’m talking in general, not just package management. Any task, if it’s scriptable and you have to do it once and anticipate doing it again, script it. That makes a good sysadmin..

By: hari

hari — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:04:42 +0000

The difference is that in Debian, the scripts are already written by the package maintainers, thus making your job easier.

It’s just a different approach.

By: drew

drew — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:02:20 +0000

I like to install and be done with it. I’m a lazy sysadmin, it makes my job easier. Do it once, script it so I never have to manually do it again is how I learned.

By: hari

hari — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:24:19 +0000

Ray, that’s exactly it. I love Free Software and Debian packages the maximum number of them in any distribution in an easily usable format. I don’t use Linux because of Linux, I use Linux because of the availability of software on it and that, I guess is what is different.

Debian is also excellent for a developer who needs to get things done quickly, because one can install so many developer tools in such a short time.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:46:30 +0000

I find Slackware is only a pain if you do want to keep trying things out, then the lack of dependency checking can become annoying and maybe Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc would be the best way. My desktop takes me a little time to get to the point where I am happy with the apps and then I just use slackpkg to keep up with patches and security updates.