Hi John
If you find 13 (I thought it was 14 now..) disks for Sarge to be too much, an alternative is to roll your own distribution. I have at various points used both Red Hat and Debian to build custom distributions for a project. The Knoppix/Morphix live systems are satisfactory for demo CDs, but lack a flexable installers and can be tiresome to modify. The Red Hat rpm dependency hell and package management just drove me mad in the end, however, the installer is a damned fine package. The current builds use a mix of Red Hat's anaconda with Debian Sarge packages (with a couple of custom debs of my own) - One 74min CD has enough space for KDE, a small selection of desktop/office apps, 3D cad/cam package, network tools, and the bare minimum of the GNU gcc tools for compiling kernels. There are a few extra support packages, but somehow, I don't think you would want the whole list..
Regards, Paul.
Side note: I must be doing some thing right - The servers get an average of 1Tb/mo. downloads !
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:26, John Seago wrote:
What do you think? I find debian a good flexable OS, Would you ever ever try rhythembox on a slackware box?
Undoubtly it is, I've got the full set of CD's for 'Sarge' 13 Disks.