I have to agree with the FreeBSD comment. If you aim for lean, clean machine that runs well on few resources, you will not go wrong with a BSD distro. I recently installed a FreeBSD 7.2 install with Fluxbox as my window manager (easy to configure, minimalist, but very efficient), and with few other packages. FreeBSD can start with nothing on there but base OS, but then using the 'packages' or 'ports' setup you can add-in what you need. Packages is a little more friendly for older computers since there's less compiling and such, but ports is more 'developer-friendly'.
That's a good start. Also, FreeBSD in particular has a simple, straightforward way to compile a custom kernel, so you can trim down what you need without too much effort. FreeBSD's online manual is quite well written and for a newb like me, easy to follow. Best of luck in any case. On Aug 27, 2:27 am, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I love Debian and Gentoo, and am considering moving to FreeBSD or > NetBSD 'cause I'm a crazy Californian and the GPL is too restrictive > for me ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
