Re: Which distro is easiest to compile in?

From: AverageJoe (AverageJoe_at_)
Date: 08/30/03


Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:37:36 GMT

mudpuppy wrote:

> I've had a lot of problems installing .tar.gz programs in SuSE 8.0
> and I'm thinking I should try a different species of Linux.
>

Slackware, As other posted mentioned. I also had lots of difficulties
installing 'non-SuSE' Packages. Slackware is the most unix like distro. It
comes with lots more library files. It is simple and 'fat free'.



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