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* Alberto Simões <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> [2008-04-22 19:25]: > Xiao Yafeng wrote: >> You wouldn't be surprised at it if you knew Slackware 11 >> choose kernel 2.4, I think. ;) > > I know that. I use slack for some time, and I know that Pat is > sometimes too conservative. But on this specific case, we are > helping him :D I don’t know that he’s too conservative. Slackware tends to be the most up to date distro, except for a few notable packages. Pat’s strategy is very simple: he refuses to package software that will need a lot of patches to stabilise or has not been declared stable by its own authors. Almost all Slackware packages are built from pristine upstream sources. As a result, the distro is very stable even though it is highly up-to-date, despite being the work of a single core maintainer. This is an extreme contrast to eg. the Debian model. </offtopic> Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous