MaD dUCK on Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:47:28 -0500


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[PLUG] distros


yet again, i am faced with distro problems. ran redhat for way too
long and finally got around to suse. hate it. i mean, it's so windoze
that i just can't stand it. maybe i'll have to give it a couple of
days without that yast disease, but maybe i should also look around a
little more.

what i want is a distro that has a very nice SysV filesystem hierarchy
without exceptions, smart boot scripts and an easily extensible rc.d
architecture. furthermore, i want the distro to make use of some form
of software packaging that is not RPM (yuck). ideally, i'd like
tarballs whenever possible simply because i want to be in control of
compile time options.

other than regular gnu tools or whatever, i want no graphical config
tools whatsoever.

any ideas? tipps? pointers?

thanks,
martin

[greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net
-- 
click the start menu and select 'shut down.'


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