[ale] Minimal but easily customizable linux distribution.

[Emil P. Man]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:25, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> 	I'm trying to setup a linux box that I can use as a video editing station. It needs to grab 
> firewire video and run the various other programs that provide video/audio editing and DVD 
> production. Lots of these programs have dependencies on apps that simply don't come with most 
> distributions and some even seem to require kernel mods (for firewire support). Getting all this going 
> under major distributions like RedHat or Mandrake is getting to be a huge PITA. Frankly - I don't 
> need or want 80% of the packages that most distributions come with and am very comfortable with 
> downloading .tar.gz source files and building from scratch. Indeed - this is often the only way to get 
> things to work at all when I want a feature that isn't compiled into a binary package. Its even more 
> frustrating when the distributions change locations and paths for files from what their defaults are in 
> source distributions so when I finally build/install from source - the result can be a lot of collisions 
> from the previous installation which didn't get cleaned completely when uninstalling the package. 
> Maybe I'm too bleeding edge but I don't really think so. 
> 
> 	Soooo... I'd like a nice, up to date distribution that installs easily, doesn't do a lot of funky 
> custom stuff, and lets me build/install new apps as I need them without worrying about colliding with 
> a bunch of old dependencies. Gentoo might fit the bill except its install is still something far more 
> complex than it need be even at the easiest level. I'd appreciate any recommendations or 
> experiences people can pass along. Maybe I'm just missing some otherwise obvious solution?
> 
> 	thanx & later,
> 
> 		Ben Scherrey
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> 
Ben,
I have heard good things about Gentoo when it comes with what you are
describing above. 

emil