Re: [Sheflug] Distro Recommendation

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:38, Netsonic wrote:
> What we basically want is a system that can be built from compilation as
> well as precompiled binaries; where compiling from source won't interfere
> too much with any package management system. Obviously it will need some
> kind of package management, otherwise trying to sort out all the
> dependencies is going to be a major headache!
> 
> I'm wondering if there is something out there that is *similar* to Gentoo
> but maybe with a different package management setup.

I would go for Debian. You have both binary and source packages, and
building them (especially from stable) is pretty easy.

Cheers,

Alex.


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