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Yef
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 8
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 Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:
Redhat vs Slackware?
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Hi all,
I curious what the significant differences are between
Redhat (non-SPDMS) and Slackware Linux.
Would I be wrong to say that the differences boil down to
just these three?
1. use of RPMs in Redhat instead of tarballs in Slackware
2. more GUI support for configuration in Redhat
3. BSD-based config files in Redhat vs SysV in Slackware?
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Terry
*nix forums addict
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
Posts: 55
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:
Re: Redhat vs Slackware?
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Yef wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all,
I curious what the significant differences are between
Redhat (non-SPDMS) and Slackware Linux.
Thank you.
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I moved to Slackware about two years ago, from Redhat 8.0 to Slack 9.0. I
noticed that Slack was quite a bit faster to boot and to launch konqueror
and kmail than Redhat. I tried Linux From Scratch and it worked out well
after I finally got it going, but the lack any package manager at all drove
me back to Slackware. Slackware has been extremely stable for me.
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Terry Parker
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Matt Payton
*nix forums addict
Joined: 04 Mar 2005
Posts: 75
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject:
Re: Redhat vs Slackware?
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:02:45 -0800, Yef wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all,
I curious what the significant differences are between Redhat
(non-SPDMS) and Slackware Linux.
Would I be wrong to say that the differences boil down to just these
three?
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Yes, you would be wrong. there are many other differences...
| Quote: | 1. use of RPMs in Redhat instead of tarballs in Slackware
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This is basically true. Although Slackware can use rpm to some degree.
And nothing is stopping you from using tar'ed packages on RH.
| Quote: | 2. more GUI support for configuration in Redhat
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I suppose this is true. RH does seem to have more gui config tools.
| Quote: | 3. BSD-based config files in Redhat vs SysV in Slackware?
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I think you got this backwards.
To quote from Slackware documentation : "Slackware uses the BSD-style
layout for its initialization files. Each task or runlevel is given its
own rc file. This provides an organized structure that is easy to
maintain.
There are several categories of initialization files. These are system
startup, runlevels, network initilization, and System V compatibility. As
per tradition, we'll lump everything else into an “other” category."
Info on RH's init setup can be found here :
http://squidward.mit.edu/rhel-doc/RH-DOCS/rhel-rg-en-3/s1-boot-init-shutdown-sysv.html
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