Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Hello Chinese student

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
6 Nov 1998 08:18:42 GMT

Followup to: <00e901be0957$f8b70020$04c809c0@Fake.Domain.com>
By author: "Anthony Barbachan" <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> >Strange, it wasn't broken for me nor many people that I converse with.
> >The most broken distribution in recent years is Slackware as it insists
> >on shipping buggy, outdated packages with known security holes and doing
> >nothing about it.
> >
>
> Have you check slackware lately? While it was true that they were shipping
> outdated packages and not fixing bugs for a few releases, the past few have
> been much better.
>

Have they ever fixed the problem that upgrading at least used to be
impossible (or nearly so)?

-hpa

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