Del
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Posted: Jan. 05 2004,05:46 |
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I'm still running RedHat 8 on my 'duty' machine, but I'm still finding myself tired of it's bloat.
I found DSL a couple weeks back (okay, maybe three), and basically fell in love. I think it's
going to be a great base system for me to build it to exactly what I want. It's small, runs quick
and it isn't loaded with a bunch of daemons I don't need or want. It also auto-detected every
thing on my box, even sound worked right off the bat. It's easier (read faster) to get running
than things like Linux From Scratch (or whatever it's called now), and still gives me the feeling
of having set things up as I want them, instead of what RedHat or someone thinks I want them.
Now for the fun part. Because it's light and simple, I can easily remaster my changes into an .iso,
and even distribute that as my own distro, if I wanted to (ooh, Delinux?). Granted, legally I could
do that with RedHat or any other distro as well, but I'd probably have to invest countless hours
and thousands of dollars on illegal drugs to figure out the intricacies of RPM and RH's
'layout', even though I've been using RedHat for nigh onto 7 years. To contrast, I figured it
out on DSL in an evening, and didn't add any new addictive (or illegal) habits.
So, after all this rambling, I guess my point is simply that DSL will survive just fine, even if
it's called DSL, Delinux (hhmmm... still thinkin about that) or whatever. After all, it's still just
a derivative of Knoppix. Things like Delinux (I gotta quit saying that, I'm liking this too much)
will fill the void between the 50Mb DSLs and the 650Mb Knoppixes that are light, run quick,
have Evolution and a real browser, but no Gnome+KDE+this+that+theother bloat.
Okay, gonna shut up now 
-edit == spelling-
-edit 2 == update-
btw, to install Evolution it requires re-editing /etc/apt/sources.list to the stable branch. Then 21.2 Mb of downloads requiring 62.6 Mb of install space.
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