Slackware 7.1 has a bunch of security problems (buffer overflow exploits) that you should beware of. Slackware is a hard distribution to remain current (security-wise) with, unless you recompile the relavent packages yourself (which I like to do). Their packaging system is primitive and may blow things away without warning. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <chrome at real-time.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:30 PM Subject: [TCLUG] FTP install of Slackware? > I've decided to finally give Slackware a try (about 5 years after hearing > about it...). > I have a 486 w/12MB of RAM and will probably end up with a 340MB HDD. I want > to set it up as a web server. (before you all shout out that 'you need more > memory than that!'; remember what it used to be like, before memory was > cheap.. it's not going to be a high-performance box, and I don't care.) > > is there any way to install Slackware via FTP? the only install methods I > see are floppy, CD, and NFS. > > also, should I grab the latest slackware-current stuff; or is 7.1 good > enough for the moment? > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >