[rescue] Linux Luserisms (was: secondary market storage?)

[Linc Fessenden]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 07:57:44PM -0500, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> > Here we go again with more poorly informed people who think RedHat is the
> > only and defacto Linux distro out there.  As far as the Linux is not Unix
> > argument...  Who gives a flying crap?  If it walks like a duck and talks
> > like a duck, it's a duck.  Doesn't matter what you call that duck, it's
> > still a duck.  You people get way to hung up on semantics.
> 
> Personally, I'm looking for a good distro where I can get a base 
> environment and compiler on, then build EVERYTHING ELSE from scratch.
> X, utilities, everything.
> 
> I do this with most of my Sun/Solaris boxen too.
> 
> Bill

That's easy.. There's the Linux from Scratch thingie which I haven't used
but have heard many people playing with, and then there's Slackware which
I highly advocate.  Just do a base install and then roll your own from
source after that.  Works like a charm.

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-Linc Fessenden

In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...