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From: MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>
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>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.
>
Slackaware, if you're willing to relax your SysV requirement and
put up with BSD-style init scripts. (There is an rc.sysvinit hack
included in the rc.d directory tree if you want to emulate SysV
style init.) Slack really knows how to stay out of your way and let
you do GNU/Linux except when you want it.
http://www.slackaware.com/
One person, Patrick, is responsible for the distro, so it is
remarkably consistent and stable. With Slack, you
have no one to blame for system cruft except yourself, but at least
it's all in /usr/local/*. You can floss, brush, rinse and spit every
few months to make things sparkly again. (Don't forget to put those
commands in cron yourself, though.)
Good luck.
Chris
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