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Linux is more or less unified, but not quite, directory structure-wise, installation and update-wise etc. The only way to get a generic distro is to forget about apt, yum, emerge and suchlike, download several DVD's of raw sources and start out with a clean system and gcc.
but I haven't heard even of a real linux guru (someone who is actually capable of such heroism), who would do that. most people just go for Debian, RH, SuSE, Slackware adn FreeBSD.
Some have to stick to Solaris and other professional unixes, that are pretty far from Linux.
And since I've mentioned FreeBSD, it's a distro that shouldn't be forgotten. After all it's really unix, and not GNU, it has a much longer history and it can be used even at the desktop just as well. a friend of mine plays most modern games on BSD, even taught his gf to use it, and she's a unix fan now as well
but I haven't heard even of a real linux guru (someone who is actually capable of such heroism), who would do that. most people just go for Debian, RH, SuSE, Slackware adn FreeBSD.
Some have to stick to Solaris and other professional unixes, that are pretty far from Linux.
And since I've mentioned FreeBSD, it's a distro that shouldn't be forgotten. After all it's really unix, and not GNU, it has a much longer history and it can be used even at the desktop just as well. a friend of mine plays most modern games on BSD, even taught his gf to use it, and she's a unix fan now as well
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>I haven't heard even of a real linux guru (someone who is actually capable of such heroism), who would do that.
*ahem* LinuxFromScratch...
*ahem* LinuxFromScratch...
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oh I know those projects
but I'm talking about the real world, production servers, desktops, high availability systems, storage, routing mail exchangers... I really don't think there's even a couple of dozen of such "from scratch" builds running among the millions of *nixes in the real world because every normal system admin likes things that just work, no extra dancing around with a shaman's tambourine
that's why MS is so successful - everything is so easy to do, you just end up ignoring all the bugs and instability issues. Real stupidity always beats Artificial Intelligence. (Terry Pratchett)
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i made an lfs system and tried to implement apt. never got apt working in the ened but if i had it would have been awesome
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Originally Posted by Infarction 
I couldn't get the MEPIS 6 installer to run when I tried it and I didn't feel like burning another image, but it cant be that different from the other popular distros. and ntfs-3g is available for anyone, so there.
And next time I knock it, I'll use [sarcasm] tags...
Last edited by mepnoob2005; Mar 14th, 2007 at 9:12 am.
no it didnt work for me either. Its scsi and hardware RAID support sucks, the server i trioed to install it on even ran radhat 6.2 no probs but not MEPIS
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