also sprach Jerry Kreps (on Mon, 08 Jan 2001 04:37:58PM -0600):
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 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.