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Article #586Distribution for 'techies'
From: Steve Dodd
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:00
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Hi everyone, I've finally had it up to _here_ with Slackware. When I first started off with Linux and knew nothing about it, Slackware was wonderful. Now I'm older and wiser (by 2+ years or so), I seem to keep finding little niggles in Slackware 96. I had problems installing it ( /dev/console missing, syslogd dumping core), along with all sorts of other things. The thing that finally flipped me out tonight was finding /usr/include/ndbm.h and dbm.h missing - a small thing I know, but on top of everything else I feel it is time for a change.. Are there any distributions out there aimed at 'techies'? In other words, that expect you to know what you're doing on the install, but actually provide packages with all the bits present (and working), etc, etc. Alternatively, does anyone know of any 'bootstrap' distributions that would provide me with enough of a working system to build everything else from scratch? Thanks in advance.. Cheers, Steve
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,596be1594862c550,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fac57,596be1594862c550,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfac57,public From: dirk@loth.demon.co.uk (Steve Dodd) Subject: Distribution for 'techies' Date: 1997/03/11 Message-ID: <5g4kc7$1g8@loth.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 224883601 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: loth.demon.co.uk Organization: Lothlorien Keywords: linux distributions slackware debian Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,demon.tech.unix