[ale] clean distro?

[David S. Jackson]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:00:54PM -0700 Stephen Turner <artic_knight at yahoo.com> wrote:
> oops sorry bout that blank, anyways, is there a "clean distro" or one
> designed for servers/console use only? my understanding is theres extra
> fluff in all these apps i compile or apt-get or what ever (distro) may be
> the case. i was hopeing for a very minimalistic app selection, a selection
> that doesnt include xfree code or extra code in the apps, something geared
> twards servers perhaps. hopefully something that can/does include
> something like rpm-get or apt-get or emerge, so that updates are painless.
> or am i barking up the LFS tree?

Geoffrey mentioned Slack.  That's probably the most "clean" distro I can
think of in terms of being complete yet allowing minimal installation.

I like Debian, but there are many different packages; Debian likes to
break packages up in the interest of flexibility I think.  Yet the
dependency issues can become complex.

There are lots of Linux On A Disk distros out there.  That might fit
your needs.  Try the ibiblio.org site's linux page; there's a review of
distros there. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/

Also, there are the BSDs.  You can get a good clean server install out
of those too.

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