[ale] Minimal but easily customizable linux distribution.

[Van Loggins]

sorry for the double post, I hit send before I was finished editing my
response. go with this version instead of the first response I sent.


On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:51:18 -0400, Van Loggins <vanloggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with the guys who recommended slackware, gentoo is good if you
> have the time to tinker with it, but for something that just works out
> of the box with minimal BS and can be configured however you want it,
> I would go with slackware.
> 
> 
> 
> if you combine it with swaret http://swaret.sourceforge.net then it's
> truly awesome.
> 
> right now i have mine set to pull from current instead of 10.0 and the
> system I have this on is running great.
> 
> my favorite Distro is still Libranet, but slackware has definately won
> a place on my top 3 list.
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:18:13 -0400, Emil P. Man <mailinglists at synban.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
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> > Ben,
> > I have heard good things about Gentoo when it comes with what you are
> > describing above.
> >
> > emil
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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> Van Loggins
> "Linux Geek In Training"
> vanloggins at gmail.com
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