On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > > > I just want a very generic distro. > > > > > > Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned 'generic', > > > as opposed to - say - myth, voyage, etc. > > > > > A distro aiming at as few surprises as possible. > > Most of what I have mentioned are relatively generic but all > > have some surprises. Fedora has become particularly annoying > > to upgrade and Ubuntu tries to prevent serious tinkering etc, etc. > Amen > cheers Chris T > > In that case I reckon you need one of the DIY distros. e.g.
Linux from Scratch. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Source Mage. http://sourcemage.org/ Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/ is also a possibility, but you mention that as being undesirable. I'm sure some of us would be prepared to set up our machines as hosts in a compiler farm for you. Volunteers CLUGgers? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell