John Carter wrote: > Time for a wee bout of 'Distro war... > ... > > Back in the bad old days of Linux 0.99 when Men were Real Men, and little > Plastic Barbies were Really Plastic.... we used to suck down the source > of each package from the authors site as we needed it, compiled it, and > ran. > > If it crashed, we had the source, the debug sym's, gdb and a compiler. So > we fixed it and sent the patch back to the Author. > > In the bad new world of Deadbat, if a program crashes... > ...we say "Bugger" and go do something else. > > What I really want is a Distro that has all the sources and the debug syms > on disk so if it crashes I can fix it. > > I hate loathe detest programs that crash and I can't do anything about it. > > Any suggestions?
I have been using/tring out SourceMage for ~4 months on a Celeron 400 with 64MB with no problems just need to wait a bit longer for everthing to compile. The packaging system is good in that everthing is up front there to look at, no having to dig around is some DB , also you install just what is needed no more no less. The current release is pre V1 but that's never been a problem in the OSS world. http://sourcemage.org/ + http://grimoire-gurus.org/ Richard. --
