gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:57:18 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] distros


On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:41:42PM +0100, MaD dUCK wrote:
> 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.

You just precisely described Debian.

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

Oh, and maybe Slackware.

;^>

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net


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