Thanks, Andrei. Will give it a look. I've only ever heard it spoke it in passing. Guess I should give it a run, just to see.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Andrei <frunza...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Brandon, > I believe CRUX did have some influence on Arch but the latter has nothing to > do with CRUX. The difference consists in different package managers (pacman > vs pkgutils) although pacman is somewhat similar to CRUX's pkgutils, > ports-like package management, where one would download the specific > Pkgfile, paches and relevant sources while pkgmk would compile and then > invoke pkgadd to install the port. > -- > Andrei > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Brandon LaRocque > <larocque.bran...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Wasn't CRUX the biggest influence on the creation of Arch? I could be >> wrong. I haven't used it, though. What's the difference between it and >> Arch? It's one of the distros one doesn't really hear much about, from >> what I've seen. >> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Andrei <frunza...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > evening, >> > I'd suggest CRUX, http://crux.nu - It doesn't do any hand holding and it >> > has >> > a simple package manager similar to BSD ports. >> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:45 PM, v4hn <m...@v4hn.de> wrote: >> >> >> >> evening, >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:35:31PM -0500, Claudiu Bucur wrote: >> >> > it [gentoo] has been my closest experience to what >> >> > i imagine "linux from scratch" would be like. >> >> >> >> You should try Lunar (lunar-linux.org) or SourceMage (sourcemage.org) >> >> then. >> >> Those systems _are_ LFS with a couple of bash scripts to handle >> >> modules... :) >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 05:26:21PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> >> > gentoo is a pile of shit [...] >> >> > archlinux is just gentoo but less well maintained. >> >> > debian is a bloated monstrosity >> >> > ubuntu has all the drawbacks of debian with all the incompetence of >> >> > arch >> >> > linux. >> >> > netbsd is run by crackpots. >> >> > freebsd is decent but not as nice as openbsd >> >> >> >> yeah, everything's fubar, >> >> so I wonder why you even take your time writing such an idiotic mail... >> >> Go and fix it :P >> >> >> >> >> >> v4hn >> > >> > >> > >
