Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 23rd Oct 2006 10:44 UTC
This is a review of Slackware 11.0 where the author explains what is in store for the Linux users who choose to use this Linux distribution. The article writes: "When you hear the name Slackware, you are at once transported to a world where Linux users feel more at home in setting the configurations by editing ordinary text files. In fact the credo of Slackware is to keep it as simple as possible. In popular speak, it is known by the acronym KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)."
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Not to mention that binary-based centralized registry can be extremely difficult to clean up. Take MS Windows' registry hive for example: after installing and uninstalling one or two dozens of applications, the registry almost always becomes a major mayhem of entangled useless garbage, which in turn may compromise system performance.
), but it's in fact very easy to maintain (just fire up your-favorite-editor-here and edit & save & exit), and also quite helpful to maintain system integrity, since every app has its own separate configuration files, there's almost zero chance of unused configuration might cause system performance drop...ah, of course to many conf files might slow down fsck'ing time anyway. :-)
On the other hand, text-based, decentralized file-based configuration might seems to difficult to maintain and major cause of headache and nausea for newbies (ever tried to count number of files in /etc??