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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:29:01PM -0600, Bryce Porter wrote: |
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> Tom: |
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> "I'm just thinking along the lines of a minimum binary system where |
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> absolutley needed, and compiling specifically everywhere else? I realise this would |
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> be slow to install on slower systems, but, since we're all power users... ;) |
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> Seriously though, I do think this would be a nice feature, unless there's |
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> some practicality reason I'm missing." |
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> I think this is a great idea. I heard of a GNU/Linux distrobution that |
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> when installed compiled all selected packages from source, making it the |
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> most optimized you could get for your specific machine. I think it was |
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> called Rock Linux or something. |
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Not heard of it, but a quick search on google reveals the predicatable url: |
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http://www.rocklinux.org, #rocklinux on irc.openprojects.net. |
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Looks to be faily mature (at least they're past 1.0 ;), supports ppc and alpha |
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as well as x86. From what I can see it has a binary cd version, with the option |
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to compile from source (the same thing I was talking about, if I understand them |
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correctly). It describes it's package management as closer to FreeBSD than debian. |
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It looks to be quite similar to gentoo to me, although not quite as advanced. |
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No offence if they're listening ;) |
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- Tom |
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