Selection criteria
waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Sun Sep 26 22:03:21 UTC 2004
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:37:16AM -0400, William Park wrote
> Slackware in all my machines, because
> - it's the only one which can be installed using shell script.
> - it's small (2GB full install), and library dependency is none
> issue.
> - all files are where you expect them to be
> - rc.* are BSD style which is easier to maintain
> - it doesn't overwrite any of my changes (like Redhat)
Sounds a lot like CRUX ( http://crux.nu ) which I'm using on both my
machines. The base system comes as a 200 megabyte ISO image. Its
"ports" system is neat. Each "port" is a small metadata file in its own
subdirectory. Running "pkgmk -d" downloads the regular tarball (if not
already present) and builds it from scratch. The default compiler
options are "-O2 -march=i686". My 5-year-old Dell (450mhz 128 megs of
RAM) is quite snappy running Blackbox rather than KDE or GNOME. CRUX
uses Reiserfs and devfs (gonna have to switch to udev soon).
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