I have not tried it yet, so take this with a grain , but http://www.gentoo.org/ sounds like an interesting idea.
Its a source based distribution that downloads all of the newest versions of _everything_, and compiles it on your system. It takes a while to set up , but you get exactly what you want , I guess. I think it is pretty much a requirement that you have a fast connection though. Just saw it on slashdot , and it sounded interesting , I might try it on my next box. Laters -Tim --- Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:05:09PM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Ja, a little more research on Google leads me to the same conclusion. > > Looks like I'm in for a re-install... or maybe it's time to purchase a > > new disk and just install a new distro. That will be this week's new fun > > thing to do, and I can guarantee the next distro will not be Red Hat. > > It's sad, I liked them from 4.0 up to 6.whatever... > they totally lost me with 7. > > I got a cheapbytes debian CD, then spent a few minutes getting the > hang of dselect, configured it to use online sources, and > (with a cable modem) updated everything to debian unstable > in a couple hours. Having done that, I don't know if I'd recommend > unstable to others. I've had a couple minor annoyances, and > one update that made the system unbootable (thank god for boot > floppies). > > The "testing" distro might be better. > > If I were you, I'd take the opportunity to go to a journaling filesystem > too, at least for /home. > I did reiserfs, but ext3 would probably be easier to do. > I haven't seen a forced fsck since I did that... > > > -- > > Paul Winkler > home: http://www.slinkp.com > "Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
