[ale] Trustix Secure Linux

[Jeff Hubbs]

When I've dabbled in other distros over the past couple years, one of my
pet peeves has been this thing where you have to find the right
repositories to get various things.  In Gentoo-land, there's really only
one (although people can and do maintain offshoots), and if what you
want doesn't have an ebuild in Portage, you can always grab source and
pretend you're on Slackware, because the build system is a given on a
Gentoo machine.

James Sumners wrote:
> Just browsing the package repository search on trustix.org, I notice
> that it is an RPM based distribution. I've never found RPM based
> distros to be "easily maintained". SuSE has YaST which does a pretty
> damn good job, but I still find it lacking as compared to
> apt-get/dpkg. Personally, I prefer Debian/Stable for servers. Indeed,
> I am using the current Debian/Stable for basically the same thing at
> home. It doesn't store files but it does run samba to act as the WINS.
> The machine manages all other aspects of my network as well.
>
> But, if you're more familiar with Red Hat (as it seems to be based on
> -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustix), give it a shot.
>
> On 9/6/06, runman <runman at speedfactory.net> wrote:
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>> Does anyone have any experience with this particular Linux
>> distro ???  I am looking for a stable and easily maintained
>> linux distro to use as a family file server running Samba.
>> The machine is an old 700 MHz low-RAM box with an Escalade
>> RAID card in it.
>>
>> I know someone on this list mentioned Trustix a while back
>> but I cannot recall who it was.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg
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