by This was certainly an interesting article to read... is Linus
holding the editor's daughter for ransom or something? :) This article
is actually GOOD and pro-Linux.. imagine that.. the only really negative
part I could find in it was rather truthful.. the lack of the ability to
really upgrade Slackware systems without totally reinstalling.. maybe I'm
too nitpicky but maybe they should have taken a look at RedHat.. its
upgradeable, reasonably priced, and is easier to install then even
slackware can claim to be.. not that this article is bad, I realize they
can't take the time to comment on every Linux distribution.. it just
seems for easy of installation and management's sake Redhat would take
the cake.. (well.. to be honest Slackware 3.0 installs fine as well on my
386/33 with 5 megs of ram while Redhat is much more comfortable on my
486/66 with 20 megs of ram.. :)
Hmm.. it also talks about the lack of multi-cpu support... if I'm
not mistaken wasn't this problem already solved? I thought I heard
recently that newer development kernels have multiprocessor support.
There seems to also be confusion about XFree86 X though.. I guess
they didn't have a supported card.. If I've learned anything while
running Linux its to consult the hardware howto before buying any new
hardware.. ;)
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