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Quoting Rick Rosinski <rick@rickrosinski.com>:

> I have been a Slacker since I first started using Linux, back in 1997.
> I have tried RedHat and didn't like it. I lived with SuSE 6.4 for a
> while, but I didn't like the RPM package management. I like plain old
> tar.tgz and manual configuration, etc.

There's nothing about RedHat or Debian that require you to use RPM package
management. You can still use trusty ol' .tar.gz files to install all your
software, regardless of the distro. And all of the config files are still
there for manual configuration.
~M