[ale] Best base install

[Geoffrey]

Greg wrote:
> 	Ok, after spending time cleaning out the crap from Red Hat 7.3 and Suse's
> 8.0 (and no, I have not tried the "barebones" install - it is next on my
> list) can anyone tell me of a distro that gives more control over a base
> install ?  And preferable has packages of just that, i.e. a "Database"
> package won't have X crap or games in it, just databases.
> 
> 	I suspect Gentoo is done this way.  I don't know about Slackware and
> Debian, so, .... can any users of these two distros enlighten me ? (I have
> already gone past Mandrake - just another bloatware distro).

Slackware will give you the smallest footprint available of the larger 
distros.

> 
> TIA
> Greg C.
> 
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