Re: a new BSWare

["t.bedlam" <bedlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:55:56AM -0400, Bruce Smith was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

Hmm. Who wrote this part? -->

> > I tried making my own distro once... wasn't really anything special,
> > though.  Right now, though, if I were going to make one, I would
> > probably want it to be something like a cross between Debain and
> > Solaris, with the cool stuff like Helix thrown in, and then shutoff just
> > about all the insecure access by default...  Maybe make the daemons and
> > such configure themselves a little bit better, and have it setup to run
> > nice with ot without DNS.  Hmmm...  I do like some of the stuff that
> > Solaris does, though, so it would be nice to have that, but the GNU
> > stuff is really the biggy...  Still working on getting my Sparc to
> > almost usable, by dropping TONS of GNU software on it:) (Sun ls is
> > bad... sun shutdown is bad... sun ... you get the idea:)

Hm. What's Solaris like?

I am curious about S.u.S.E. 6.4. Best Buy has it for $30 with bunches of
CD's, and, handling the box, a printed manual. :) Obviously, being rpm-based
is a plus. Not being in English, natuerlich, is a minus. :) My German is
VERY rusty!

Debian is solid, but even slower than Red Hat. 2.2 "potato" has LDAP and has
likely had it for ages but they are still a week or two from bundling the
files into an offical dist. with boot floppies, &c. On the other hand, my
2.1 "slink" is running potato's openLDAP 1.2.10-3 because another upgraded
package wanted it (I'm currently installing packages from 2.2 ftp dirs). LVM
0.8i-1 is in potato as well. I just have a slow connect that won't support
net-upgrades in a timely fashion.

And, of course, nothing commercial. (Though KDE will now be an offical .deb
from now on.)

Let's all add on our comments on each dist and see what consensus says. :)

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