Linux Desktop Summit Re: [SGVLUG] Hello from San Diego

[Dustin Laurence]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:11:17AM -0700, Alex Roston wrote:

> At the end of the process, Slackware became an extension of my will.  
> But it took a couple years, and I dread the day I have to upgrade.

See, this is why I'm not currently running Slack.  Or LFS, same issue
(but even freakin' worse than Slack in this category).  Getting it
perfect once is fine, but then comes the upgrade....

Your mention of doing the ./configure ; make ; make install dance is I
think the essence of the Slackware user experience. :-)  Yay, source
tarballs.  Boo, having to watch the mailing lists for 67 separate
projects to find out when you have to do a security upgrade. :-)

(I think I'm going to write a procmail recipe to move all that stuff
into a new inbox just for security, come to think of it.)

That said, one of the lovely things about Slack is that you can actually
feel the increased responsiveness if you install it after getting used
to another distro.

Dustin
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