Linux

[Nigel Sollars]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:14:45PM -0700, Richard L. Proctor wrote:
> > Just out of Curiosity which distrobution of Linux do you prefer and what
> > makes it better in your opinion?
> 
> My own brew. Although technicially it's Linux From Scratch, but I've made so
> many changes to it I'd hardly call it such. The reason: less bloat, less
> dependencies, it runs what I want and not what the creators want, and
> upgrading portions of the system isn't as time consuming as it would be
> under a package based system. Eg: if I need to update libc, all I have to do
> is download, ./configure, make, make install, and I'm done -- no broken
> dependencies anywhere. Albeit, this kind of distro is not for those with
> heart conditions or those who are new to Linux since it's source-level
> "package management" feature requires a pretty heavy understanding of how
> the packages fit together.
> 
> 

Dunno if its just me but isnt this Slackware?? hehe 

besides the mini sparc release is awesome too we had it running back in
the UK on a sparc IPX 40Mhz took 3.5 days to build XFree hehehe well worth
the time though :)

Regards 

Nigel