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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Which is better for novice??? SLS or MCC-INTERIM!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.200935.507@victrola.sea.wa.us>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:09:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: victrola.1992Nov10.200935.507
- References: <1992Nov9.063005.27308@csu.edu.au>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
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- u9030062@golum.riv.csu.edu.au ("Ronald Ku") writes:
- > For a novice of linux like me, I am confused by SLS and
- >MCC-INTERIM versions of linux. In some of the README files in many sites
- >recommend to install SLS or MCC-INTERIM for the first time. But what is
- >the different between these two versions of linux? Are they the clones of
- >the "real linux"?
-
- > SLS seem to be more compete and welly organise. Is it better
- >than MCC-INTERIM in performance and portability? Could anyone advice me
- >which one should I start with and what would be the advantages?
-
- my experience (for what little it's worth :-)) is that mcc-interim seems
- more stable. However, it's basically an o/s package and doesn't have the
- extras (mail, uucp, gnu, x, etc...) that SLS has.
-
- the result is that you have to build your own SLS so to speak from mcc-interim
- plus other stuff. I don't mind in most cases, but it *does* take some time.
-
- Here's my setup:
-
- mcc-interim 0.97pl2
- 0.98pl3 kernel
- mailpak1.3 (elm2.3pl11 plus Taylor uucp1.03)
- newspak1.0 (cnews, tin1.1pl4, trn2.2, nn6.4.16, smail3.1.28)
- vixie cron
- perl4.035
- several communications packages (xc, minicomm, pcomm)
- X-v1.1
- jumptables 4.1 for the gcc2.2.2 that came with mcc-interim
- ps0.98
- getty_ps 2.03
-
- as you can see, it's a lot of stuff that accumulated over the months :-)
- but for me, that's part of the fun...your mileage may vary.
-
- long term, I expect all the stuff I run to make it into either SLS or an
- SLS-like kit...after you grab 'em all and install 'em all, it gets old...
-
- (of course, my goal is to get uucp+news+mail+bbs up under linux, not
- to develop linux itself (except as a tester and porter of stuff).
- So, I'm not looking to really do kernel hacking at this time).
-
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