Fancy a new distribution

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> I'm hesitant on Gentoo, anything Debian-derived, or most BSDs (although 
> I LIKE the retro feel many BSDs offer) because they seem very reliant 
> about sucking packages down the network.  When a 120Mb package takes 12 
> hours of nursing the connection, you can see why I'm hesitant.  I want 
> lots of packages on the discs, and reasonably current ones.
> 
> Other major dislikes:  SysV init scripts.  Graphical boot.
> 
> Should I just go for slamd64, or does anyone else do a disc-oriented 
> distribution without all the pretty shinies?

You may want to look at the BSDs again.

I am not sure what you mean by being reliant about sucking packages down 
the network. If you use the same software on different systems, you will 
have to download the same. (The binaries would be at least similar in 
size.)

But if you mean, you want the software to be available in the default 
install direct from the installation CDs ... here is one example: 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.0/iso/README.amd64pkg

 Jeremy C. Reed

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