[lug] More Light Needed

[James Alan Brown]

Thanks Guys for the initial response to my 
questions:

Maybe a bit more light is needed here


Over the last 4 years or so I have installed/used 
many different types of Linux distributions 
Slackware, Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and Debian.

I settled on SuSE as it seemed in many ways 
to be the easiest one to mod out the many 
unwanted nasties.  

IMHO none of them are really what I am looking 
for in their present forms. All seem to me to 
be trying to do the "Bill Gates" thing 
example: AOL Time Warner/ Red Hat 
Empire build. 

Just take a good look at all the Networking/
Training Service prices that Red Hat/SuSE/
Others seem to want to screw out of you!  

Thats their real and only main interest in Linux.

I wish to produce full stop


An easy way, via a boot CD, of a pure Linux 
base install that in many ways is like the 
old MS DOS system but containing the C compiler 
and header includes and Bash shell for the end 
user to install freely whatever He/She wishes 
via un-doctored tar source files.

I guess what I am saying is that I want to make 
a Linux distribution without added junk or 
withheld info that gives the end user total 
freedom to do their own thing. 

Stability


I have looked hard at RPM's V pure tar source 
from the stability point of view and have 
found that most RPM's are bodged up to 
hide/cover up errors within that particular 
distributions idea of a Linux Standard Base 
System. (opt/kde2 v /usr/local/kde2)

My experience to-date has shown me that 
compiling up first the kernel to your systems 
hardware,  Xfree 86, and compiling up KDE2 
from pure source tar files will produce one 
hell of a stable system.

I am looking for pointers Guys
 

Web addresses for info and any good advise/ideas.

Regards,
James at jabcomp.force9.co.uk

http://www.jabcomp.force9.co.uk/