[lug] There must be a better way

[ljp]

Go Slackware, it's not a very good beginners distro. But the filesystem is 
more sane, and installing tarballs is easy. I've used Slack, and SuSE, and 
Mandrake, and RedHat, and Vectorlinux, and several floppy based. Mandrake is 
nice if you don't install their compilers and libs. It's good for beginners, 
it seems to be the only distro to successfully find my Linksys cardbus 
netcard on my laptop. I usually manually install qt, and kde anyway. (I 
develop with qt heavily, I have several versions of it installed). Gnome I 
don't care so much for, so I usually let the distro install that for me. 
SuSE is also very nice, sane fs layout. My peeve is when they dump qt, kde, 
and gnome libs all into /usr/lib, like it's a big garbage heap there. I think 
those should go into /opt

http://www.slackware.org
or for a smaller version:
http://www.ibiblio.org/vectorlinux/


Here is a list of several dists..
http://lwn.net/Distributions/
There are several run from cd based distros.

ljp


On Monday 21 January 2002 04:20 pm, you wrote:
> I am sure that there are many of you "die
> hard Linux users" that have thought about
> why all the very different distributions
> we can now obtain.
>
> Each company, it seems, has their own idea
> and way of creating a Linux box and all of
> them seem to modify endless files to reflect
> their view/logos and wishes regardless of
> what the end user really wants.
>
> RPM's from SuSE that wont work on Red Hat
> for example because of diff file mods to
> the standard tar source files.
>
> There must be a better way than this!
>
> I have looked at "The Linux from Scratch"
> method and boy that seems a bum way to go
> in order to obtain a fully compiled system.
>
> It seems you need Linux installed before
> you even start building.
>
> I cant help but wonder if it would be
> possible to make up a bootable CD with
> its root mounted containing a formatter,
> /bin/bash, file utils, all the include
> headers  and C compilers needed to format
> a clean hard drive and install the base
> linux system then un-tar each required
> package and compile it up as you go?
>
> I am now at the point of trying to produce
> a CD that fits this requirement.
>
> Has anyone any info or ideas on its
> feasibility?
>
> Has any one else thought about this and
> would like to comment?
>
> Regards,
> James at jabcomp.force9.co.uk
> JAB Computers Bristol UK
>
> http://www.jabcomp.force9.co.uk/
>
>
>
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