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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