Thanks Nathan, That sounds like a cool system! More comprehensive then tagfiles. Right now I need to find me a good tutorial on loading modules so I can get sound and the Lucent modem working. I've spent this morning browsing the documentation installed (a hell of a lot, BTW) and trying to decide which are up to date and which are not. I'll check LDP tomorrow from work. Dennis Kibbe Quoting Nathan England : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > It's really not that bad. I've been working on a package retrieval system for > > slack for about a year. So I have hundreds of updated packages on my server > and using my package system, I just type > arcanum install and it grabs eveything I want and > installs/upgrades > it. It works great for my business. arcanum.sh has the ability to update > everything through a cron job. I've also been adding service checks and > failover to it. It's much nicer than the original slack, but I may be the > only one to think so! With out open source, it never would have been a > thought. I also rewrote the installation scripts, instead of dialog it's a > text console, but it also adds the ability of keeping track of everything you > > do, then copies it all to a floppy disk, so if a week later you've trashed > something, you pop the cd in, along with the floppy and it installs > everything exactley the way it was. It is so far working perfect on IDE > systems, but I've been having some problems on scsi systems because my only > scsi test system is a VMware scsi machine! Granted that's how I do all > mytesting. I also have i686 built packages for kde 3.1. If you're interested > > in those, let me know, along with any language packs you want. > > Of course, if I wasn't in Payson, or broadband was available, you could just > arcanum.sh install kde3.1 > > nathan > > Am Freitag 31 Januar 2003 07:55 nachmittags/abends schrieb Dennis Kibbe: > > On Friday 31 January 2003 12:01 am, you wrote: > > > Now that there are a few of us talking, did you have a question about > it? > > > I've been patiently waiting!! > > > > > > nathan > > > > > > Am Mittwoch 29 Januar 2003 08:14 nachmittags/abends schrieb Dennis > Kibbe: > > > > I'm curious to know if anyone on the list is running Slakeware. > > > > > > > > Dennis Kibbe > > > > Nathan, not yet. I'll planning to install it on my prime system this > > weekend (maybe even tonight) replacing Debian Woody. I'll gain KDE 3 :-) > > and lose APT > > > > :-( > > > > A test install on a spare drive went smoothly and left only sound & modem > > to configure by hand - same as when I installed Woody. > > > > One reason for switching besides KDE 3 (I know I can hack Woody to get it) > > is I feel I should learn to complie kernels and programs from source (and > > do other daring things:-)). Up to now I've been dependent on binaries if > I > > wanted something. > > > > I do wonder how much more trouble it will be to keep system updated since > > APT made that job child's play. > > > > Dennis Kibbe > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > - -- > Nathan England > > Arcanum Linux ! > nathan at the-arcanum.org > jabber id: linuxjunkie@jabber.earth.li > > "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." > - --Adlai Stevenson > > > Registered Linux User #189789, Machine #106603 > www.sincerechoice.org > > Spam related material will be forwarded to: > uce@ftc.gov > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+PBikQ7yNnsYcupwRAsxMAJ0SFaAn38qWsdrtVipBvSNdzJPimgCfeCnC > Dq5Ck+k/SWYRQ5TJyDc13uE= > =Xcb8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/