Hi,
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, M.K.Laha wrote:
> What you say about the dumbness part is quite true. Your idea of doing a
> basic install of Red Hat and additional packages from the Net might work
> but is likely to involve a _great deal_ of hard work and sleepless
> nights.
Well, it _is_ very much doable, in fact when I am using RedHat these days,
thats the way I am working to make sure things work properly in the end.
However, I agree that doing it for the first time came be a bit of a
scary experience...
However, as I have repeatedly tried to point out that currently a lot of
ppl are getting interested about using Linux, many of whom don't strictly
come in the bracket of techies (ie. they lack the hacker mentality). For
them and installations in non-technical environments, a customized Redhat
install is still a better option at this point of time, IMHO.
There is another thing I have been doing in the past with some amount of
success. I have been compiling the src of programs that get bundled with
only a particular distro, under another distro I may be running...eg. I
have quite a few nifty Debian utils/apps running under RedHat.
In fact, rather than sticking to just what I get with a particular distro, I
find that I have a higher productivity using a mix-n-match approach and
building a system that does what I want it to do.
--Indra.
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