I use Gentoo when I want to learn things, and ArchLinux when I want things to just run e.g. data server at home. Original poster should look into ArchLinux (www.archlinux.org). It is a very minimalistic, binary-based Linux distro with a very good package manager (pacman). Depending on the repository you tap into, you can also access bleeding edge stuff. ArchLinux also has a very BSD like init system. I've never been a fan of slackware cos it is too much work. If I am going to run slackware and manage packages manually (swaret didn't quite cut it for me), I might as well run BSD, and benefit from freebsd's ports system, use portsupgrade and also depend on openbsd's pf. For a server Linux kernel, I use cko-sources with /proc/sys/kernel/interactive set to 0. Hope that helps. * Jason Opperisano (opie@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 17:38, R. DuFresne wrote: > > redhat in my experience is one of the harder dists to par down to minimum > > installs. Course, I'm a slackware bigot in the linux realm, YMMV. For a > > minimum install on slackware one requires the a series and the n series at > > least. Though one can go into each series and pick particular packages as > > needed/required as well. Having only slight experience with debain and > > suse, I can't speak for those dists at all. > > suse has a minimal install, which is nice. customizing a kernel in suse > is not. > > the ultimate minimalistic install; IMHO, is gentoo. not for the > impatient types though. > > -j > > -- > "Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're > prejudiced against all races." > --The Simpsons > > -- Ranjeet Shetye Senior Software Engineer Zultys Technologies Ranjeet dot Shetye at Zultys dot com http://www.zultys.com/ The views, opinions, and judgements expressed in this message are solely those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved by Zultys.
