The answer to all this "pure Linux" theology is, of course, to roll your own. Pick up a kernel from kernel.org, the utils from the GNU site, and a dozen or so other utilities from various other sites. Then study perl or bash or

Hello, As I have mentioned on this list before, I have built a Linux distribution from scratch using linuxfromscratch.org by Gerard Beekmans. He has done an incredible job of laying out exactly how to build the source necessary for a basic Linux box. I have just posted two version of my distribution at www.sethpayne.com/linux_home.htm so if any of you are interested you can check it out. These are simple tar balls containing the root filesystem so to install it you will have to boot with slackware (or similar) bootdisks, partition etc... The most important thing to remember is that once you have untarred in the desired partition, you have to chroot into that environment to run LILO. So say you mounted /dev/hda3 as /mnt to untar the distro. To get lilo installed you would enter: chroot /mnt env -i HOME=/root bash --login /sbin/lilo You would also have to edit the /etc/fstab to match your configuration etc... Basically, my goal is to learn Bash and PHP programming so I am building a distro that is administered through simple shell and PHP scripts. The versions I have posted are about as "pure" as you can get with very few network daemons set up. I would strongly encourage anyone who is somewhat familiar with Linux to go to www.linuxfromscratch.org and start building their own. Trust me, once you start having to write your own boot scripts and set up run levels you really start to appreciate tools like YaST! :) -----Original Message----- From: MaD dUCK [mailto:madduck@madduck.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:35 AM To: Jerry Kreps Cc: Cliff Sarginson; Koos Pol; SuSE Mailinglist Subject: [SLE] distros (was: goodbye YaST?) also sprach Jerry Kreps (on Mon, 08 Jan 2001 04:37:58PM -0600): python

until you are an expert one of them (is bash powerful enough?) and write your config scripts, layout your own FS schema, etc... Should be fun, if you don't have to work to pay bills.

sure, but there's got to be a distro out there which doesn't attempt to carry the user on hands but which gives you linux and a good selection of GNU while keeping their hands to standards and not screwing up in various places like SuSE or RedHat does. i like debian very much, just wondering if there are other ones out there worth a look at. i don't even know anymore how many linux distros there are... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- nobody expects the spanish inquisition. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq