[Lilux-help] FreeBSD, compile from source and Distributions

[Patrick Useldinger]

Patrick Kaell wrote:

> * No dependency hell! Slackware install tools, configuration tools and 
> boot scripts only require the shell. 

That's astonishing. My understanding was that Slackware does not manage 
dependencies among packages, so you have to manage them yourself via the 
error messages you get during installation.
Is that incorrect?

> * Slackware is the most UNIXish Linux distro around (I have experience 
> with Solaris, SunOS, AIX, Tru64, HP/UX and *BSD). The init system is an 
> enhanced BSD style init with support for SYSV init scripts for 
> compatibility reasons. The only other Linux distro which uses BSD style 
> init scripts is Gentoo.

... and I thought that *BSD was more 'unix-like' than any Linux 
distribution, because it has been around long before Linux started to 
exist ?!

Regards,
-pu