On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> 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 ;-)
I agree 100% with Kenny, here (Kens of the world, Unite!): Slackware is
KDE-friendly (I believe), uses .tgz exclusively (though I seem to recall
that a package manager "layer" was added, kinda, but there's no way it
could really be enfored with .tgz), has bootable floppy as well as CD-ROM
installation, etc. And let's face it: Mr. Volkerding knows his business.
While Slackware is certainly no longer the largest distribution, it is
certainly the oldest, and (IMHO) the most enjoyable, though it's been some
time since I really got dirty with Slackware. Mind you: I happen to think
that package managers are *good* things, but for sheer fun, Slackware's a
good way to go.
-Ken
>
> 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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