On Sun, 12 May 2002 23:01:57 -0400
begin dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> hey, gang!
>
> y'know what the world needs? yet another linux distribution!
>
> now, i admit that you might attribute this notion to the fact that i'm
> on some pretty fearsomely effective painkillers at the moment due to
> a physician who probably should have been a meat packer, but hear me
> out.
[snip]
Well, I have my distro, "Chiriqui Linux", based somewhat loosely on LFS
(Linux From Scratch). I keep it small so I can boot and run off a CD
(even run without a hard disk), but it has X 4.2.0 and a whole bunch of
other things I use a lot. I use it for my wireless access points, and
more. Doesn't have KDE, but I don't use that anyway. My laptop has been
running this for a while now. I split the disk into two big chunks,
update one chunk, run from that, and in a couple of months I update the
other chunk and run from that. I take care of all the little details too
(like the pcmcia includes from the pcmcia-cs package being copied to the
kernel, etc.).
My system, though, has no install method, no package update method (other
than recompile and reinstall). Everything is scripted, so I just start
the scripts and let it run. If I need to update a package, I just update
the reference to the package and run the compile/install script.
So it can be done, but it's a lot of work (or just a lot of time d/l
package sources and letting the install scripts run).
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
--
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
-- Nemesis Racing Team motto
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