[NTLUG:Discuss] Whats the most Vanilla Linux Distro...if there is such a thing

Lance Simmons lance at lsimmons.net
Fri Sep 12 22:31:40 CDT 2003


* Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [030912 10:37]:
> NTLUG wrote:
> >
> > When I say tainted...with RedHat, they tinker with everything so in
> > many cases if you get something on the internet, you are going to
> > run into some problems installing it.  I would like to find a distro
> > that doesn't have that kinda of problem.
> 
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
> 
> try building a dist on your own and you'll learn A WHOLE LOT (I think
> it's fun, but others may not have the patience).

Heck, the initial poster more or less said that he doesn't have the
patience to resolve dependencies under RedHat!  :)  He wants something
simpler.  The answer, as always, is "apt-get install X". :)

-- 
Lance Simmons



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