Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 09:09:08AM +0200, Jens Staal wrote: >>Hi all. >> >>While waiting for Sta.li to be finnished, I started playing around with a >>custom ubuntu build that uses plan9port as default user interface on as many >>levels possible (inspired by some e-mails from Anselm that were lying around >>on the web). I am basically a total layman on this and I have sort of leant >>as I went along when I built this... so there are probably a few completely >>useless configuration setting changes made. > > I'm more than a little surprised that you'd start with such an > overgrown, hulking Goliath of a system such as Ubuntu. I think it says > enough that it has aptitude, apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg, dpkg-*, > dselect, debhelper, and devscripts, just to make a start. Then you > have such abominations as Sys-V init to contend with, and the maze of > tangled configuration schemes. I would have started with a simpler > system like Arch or GoboLinux, or even a BSD. Or if I were feeling a > bit sadistic, Gentoo, Source Mage, or Slackware. Debian, though... I'm > not that sadistic.
Why not Linux from Scratch? Or even Glendix... (Slackware is probably the best realistic bet, due to the simplicity.) -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
