On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell <csawt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Been there done that! Anyway you already mentioned Sabayon which is gentoo anyway. I suggest Arch Linux, has a rolling release and good packaging system, good docos, good community. Many people swear by it. You'll get your hands dirty but not as much as for LFS or gentoo.
