Re: Distribution for 'techies'

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From: Iain Hibbert
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 00:00

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Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 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..

does it have to be linux?  NetBSD (OpenBSD, FreeBSD) are all fairly complete
OS's and are BSD to boot..  of the three, FreeBSD probably has a more friendly
package installation scheme (there are plenty of pre-compiled packages on
ftp.demon.co.uk)

NetBSD at least runs linux binaries too, so you can just copy your old packages
over if you wanted to..

iain

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From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert)
Subject: Re: Distribution for 'techies'
Date: 1997/03/13
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