crusadingknight
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Posted: Dec. 28 2005,22:09 |
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Never had problems with APT myself - DSL has quickly become my primary OS (after I ripped maybe an extra ~35MB from the core of Ubuntu via apt-cdrom to install development stuff.) Not that I'd recommend it (yet), but DSL is capable. I only use myDSL packages to cut through dependancy hell (Abiword), so I've never experienced any of that.
In fact, I've recompiled almost everything (kernel included, of course), and replaced some stuff (installed mpd/mpc instead of xmms, vim-ncurses over nvi and vi, openbox-2.2.3 over fluxbox and jwm, etc.) As I said, it takes a few hours to track everything down, but after that, it's fairly smooth sailing. Just as smooth as with Ubuntu-5.04, in fact.
That said, I've done so much that I think I need to rebuild my system from scratch to cut out all of the bloat - then I'll see how well DSL serves as a platform for Linux From Scratch.
BTW, I think myDSL behaves just as well as pacman (crux), pup-get & dotpup (PuppyLinux), etc., so, combined with dpkg, I'd say we're quite well off.
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System:
eTower 566.12, 32MB RAM, 7GB HD, 200MB swap, 1x USB v.1, Intel 810GFX, Intel 810 Audio.
Recompiled so far: Pretty much everything. I think I'll have to do a remaster to cut the growing bloat off my system.
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