On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:36:20AM -0500, Bob Glamm wrote:
>
> Believe it or not, there are people like me that take a distribution,
> do a minimal install just to get a machine up and running, then remove
> most of the package management software from the installation once
> networking has been configured, then continually update software
> from source as new fixes are released. I managed to update an
> early version of Slackware from the earliest libc4 releases through
> libc6 without ever touching a distribution disk - all updated through
> source.
>
> But I would expect that I'm in the minority in this regard. ;)
I only started with slackware 3.0, which already had libc 5.0.9.
Kurt
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