Rant

Rick Rosinski wrote:
>
> Over time, I have noticed (as did everybody else, no doubt) that when
> checking for compatibility / requirements for most of the software out there
> (Notably, StarOffice), they support RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, and even
> YellowDog, and of course, Solaris. But they do not support Slackware, even
> though they provide a tarball binary (so it isn't because of any package
> management). This really irritates me, and I worry about future releases of
> my programs will no longer work on a Slackware system. I don't want to have
> to change to one of the above distributions just because of some major
> oversight of one of the first - and ongoing - distributions of Linux.
>
> Any comments, rants, verifications, discredits, etc.?
>
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Just one -

I have found that you can accomplish most anything (save for fixing my
Adaptec 1000 array controller problem) by working with the mail lists of
the distro that you are interested in but for myself, I am resistant to
feature / application envy. Sure, I want to have KDE 2.2.1 and KOffice
1.1 but I have 2 choices - 1 is fight the good fight like Alan Dayley
did or 2 - wait for RedHat update to make it easy on me. I have had
instructions - which I posted but haven't had the time and a failure
would force me to use Windows - something I am trying to live without.

Mostly, the rant is about your own limitations (and I surely recognize
mine) - that you (and of course I) don't really have enough knowledge to
easily compile from source. That is probably the greatest asset of linux
and you and I miss the boat.

Craig