On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:39:39 -0700, A-B C. wrote:

> Just for the record, I'm 57 years old, married for 23 years to my first,
> ...
> it. I opened my own company in 1979 and have not had a "real job" since.
> Mr. Hicks, now that you know a bit about me, explain why you feel that I'm
> not qualified to be a Slackware user...

Quite impressive, truly. But it still doesn't qualify you to be a
Slackware user if those are the words you would want to use. Even if I
would not talk about qualification myself. It's not about how good you
are and what you have achieved. There are some top IT specialists that use
Debiand, others go Solaris and some even Windows. Its just matter of
philosophy: if yours differs from that of Slackware and adheres to the one
of Debian (or others) why in the world would you want to use Slackware
that would act like Debian and not use Debian instead and let Slackware be
Slackware?

> I just finished a 2.5 year, $300,000 consulting assignment with the
> State of CA. This was to implement a new platform for one of the state
> agencies. The platform was MS ASP.Net. Go and yell all you want but it
> was the right tool for the job... and that's what our company provides.

You have even told us and I most gladly agree. Various assignments
require various approprient tools and solutions. Slackware is very good in
being Slackware but fails to be Debian and vice verse. But there is a good
use for both depending on what you need and what you want. From what I
have read I can tell: You do not want Slackware.