In a message dated 8/19/03 7:02:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
dennisk@fastq.com writes:

> What is it about Slackware that you dislike? Packagewise Slackware is
> pretty up-to-date. Of course, Slackware doesn't do a little of
> hand-holding like Mandrake and RedHat.

I usually like Slackware much.  I want more packages though, and direct 
rendering didn't work right.  AFAICT, the 2.4.x kernel and XF86 4.3.0 needs a patch 
to play well together.  Fine, except that my cheap-CD site decided I didn't 
need the K series.

So I get to play the "download the kernel, research problem, find patch, 
consider that applying patch will probably make upgrade to next minor kernel 
version a pain, find hard disc is malfunctioning, replace hard disc, repeat game.

When 2.6.0 arrives, I'll check the next Slack release.  However, you must 
admit that shovelware is good for those of us on 44k connections with 80G hard 
discs to fill.