Re: [Sheflug] Distro Recommendation

[Joel Cant <joel [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> 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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What about slackware, runs nicley for most things, is pretty compact, 
and although it uses tgz packages, it has planty of packages around, or 
they can be converted from rpm. BSDish style layout, and pretty small.

Joel
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