On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> 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"
Well, the biggest problem with the system you describe is compiling said
source packages. It takes a fairly large chunk of disk space to host a usable
C compiler. So a good chunk of the system would have to be installed before
you could start compiling things. At that point, why not just go with the
distro you're using to get started?
That being said, you could use any random distro to install the minimum
needed to compile source packages, and then buy any of the several CD sets
which mirror Sunsite/Metalab/iBilio/whatever, tsx-11.mit.edu, kernel.org,
Walnut Creek, and the other big Open Source/Free Software distribution
sites. Then you could unpack and build what you wanted.
> So, what's the group opinion, what's the least specialized distribution ?
All distributions are, by definition, specialized. "least specialized"
likely depends on your point-of-view.
> I want something that isn't KDE hostile, not dependent on RPM (or apt-get)
> and available on CD.
Well, if you want to avoid package management completely, then as others
have said, go with Slackware. It just dumps binaries onto your system.
I have to ask, though: What have you got against package managers?
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