🚀 go-pugleaf

 Before I start, thanks to everyone else who has provided recommendations
 or constructive criticism..

Graham Swallow (gps@trix.dircon.co.uk) wrote:

: 	I don't understand your question, you say you want a
: 	distribution for techies, but you also say you don't
: 	want something that might require you to roll your
: 	sleeves up and fix things. 

 Yes, I guess that sort of came out wrong. I think I was thinking in terms
either of a reasonably 'bug-free' distribution which might not have had a
cozy user interface like Slackware's OR of a sort boot strap distribution..

: 	If you want a boot-strap distribution, that requires
: 	you to build things from "scratch", then you are a
: 	very brave person. You will soon realise what an
: 	enormous amount of work it is to put a distribution
: 	together. Even then, you will probably be taking large
: 	pre-assembed components (eg X11) and INSTALLING them.

 I suspect you are right - I apologise if my original post sounded a bit
arrogant - it was posted in a fit of pique :)

 I suspect what I *may* do is to stick with Slackware, gradually rebuilding
and reconfiguring various packages as I discover problems or they are upgraded
I may also produce a small Slackware 'glitches' page, and possibly put up
diffs that are required to get various packages to compile.. as you say, I
guess it will depend on how much time I have free..

: 	Debian is also a good place to start, as it is in
: 	need of second points-of-view. (Put 2 sys-admins in

 I had a look at debian; I like the concept of a distribution with lots of
contributors - I'm just not totally keen on the result (probably a result of
having been biased to Slackware).

 Incidentally, someone mentioned that Slackware does not conform to the
file system layout standard (sorry, it's real name has slipped my mind for
the moment). Could anyone suggest where I might find a copy of this document?

: 	You will be the first to announce that a missing
: 	/dev/console line in a make-dev configuration script
: 	is nit-picking, easily-fixed, trivial ... it just
: 	didn't make it to the CDROM on schedule.

Point taken!

	Cheers,
		Steve