You just described Slackware. There is no package manager, everything is
done from source (unless they have changed that). As for your other
comments, I will leave the flamewars to the people with strong opinions
(since everyone knows that I am such an easy-going kinda guy ;-)
Kenny
Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
>
> Well I'm about to give up on a Debian installation as it just seems to want
> to fight me every step of the way. I have burnt hours now trying to get apt-get
> to load sources so I can re-build a kernel and get what I want. I went to the
> LSB web page to see what distro I could use that 1) MADE SENSE and 2) wasn't
> RedHat since RH seems to have adopted MS style marketing strategies. I was
> surprised to see that Debian is an LSB member since they seem to do everything
> their own way.
>
> I'm fantasizing about a distro that comes with a bootable floppy to install
> from and a set of CDs with tar.gz images of source packages so that you could
> install a truely generic "GNU/Linux" (let's not get into a flame war over that
> name, you know what I mean). I don't want a package manager unless it's bullet
> proof; having one that mostly works is worse than not having one at all.
>
> So, what's the group opinion, what's the least specialized distribution ?
> I want something that isn't KDE hostile, not dependent on RPM (or apt-get) and
> available on CD.
>
> Tom "hoping for info but expecting a flame war" R
>
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