Rant

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:25:20PM -0700, Rick Rosinski wrote:
> Over time, I have noticed (as did everybody else, no doubt) that when=20
> checking for compatibility / requirements for most of the software out th=
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> (Notably, StarOffice), they support RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, and e=
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> YellowDog, and of course, Solaris.  But they do not support Slackware, ev=
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> though they provide a tarball binary (so it isn't because of any package=
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> management).  This really irritates me, and I worry about future releases=
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> my programs will no longer work on a Slackware system.  I don't want to h=
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> to change to one of the above distributions just because of some major=20
> oversight of one of the first - and ongoing - distributions of Linux.
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> Any comments, rants, verifications, discredits, etc.?

Why would future revisions of their programs not work under Slackware? If
they didn't work under slackware, they wouldn't work under any other Linux
system in existance. I say this because Slackware is about as close as you
can get to a source-built Linux system -- something that RedHat and the rest
_must_ be based on to make any upgrades to the core libraries, etc.

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
http://tank.dyndns.org

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