To answer your trollish question:

I've tried RedHat, Mandrake, and Suse. Redhat gets into your face about five times before letting you do what you want to do. Both are sysadmin UNFRIENDLY, and are geared to the Windows user. Mandrake is baised off of Redhat, which I don't have any hopes for because of that fact. Suse isn't half bad, the installer and setup utility is half intelegent.

Debian I haven't tried, but if it's any more complicated than Suse and into Redhat, then I wouldn't leave any hope with it.

I "grew up" with Slack. I like Slack's simplicity. I like how Slack gets out of my way and lets me whack on PPP or Apache or MySQL or PHP or whatever I need to install. It doesn't have a silly-ass package manager that gets in the way. It doesn't have fifty thousand patches to make it secure. Even with the 2 Gig of software it can install, it lets you install whatever you want, and rebuild what you need. Because of that, I'm not frustrated with Slack to the point of taking the nice Wooden Mallet I reserve for spammers and smacking the computer with it.

Slack gives me slack.

Want a copy of Slack? I'll burn you one for $7.50 and mail it off to you at no extra charge.

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In reply to Distro Rant (was Re: Re: Installing LWP in Slack 8) by strredwolf
in thread Installing LWP in Slack 8 by strredwolf

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