New distro

[Rich Edelman]

Has anyone tried Gentoo? I was thinking of trying that out, but instead spent 
the day yesterday making a LFS (Linux From Scratch) system. Just followed the 
directions at linuxfromscratch.com, and away I went. Ultra-modern system, I 
decided since I wasn't doing any RPM crap I could afford to go bleeding edge. 
KDE 3.0, kernel 2.4.18-pre3-mjc (has all the performance enhancing patches, 
including robert love's preemptive patch and ingo's new scheduler), and glibc 
2.2.5, heh. Even have everything optimized for my Athlon, so far with no 
problems.  So you may want to try that route, or maybe Gentoo. Both allow you 
to have a completely custom and optimized system.  I like my LFS system, 
aside from no graphical installer, heh. But hey, you only install once. ;)

Anyway, I'd be interested in helping to create a new distribution, so you can 
count me in.

Rich

On Monday 28 January 2002 11:47 am, KRFinch at dstsystems.com wrote:
> I agree.
>
> I've tried several distros over time, and haven't really been totally happy
> with any of them.  Part of that might just be newbieism with some aspects
> of Linux, but I do think I got a good feel for things loading several
> different distros one after another on the same hardware and seeing how
> each reacted.  I found it very odd that different distros needed different
> drivers and settings to use the same hardware, and even more odd that
> autodetection "just worked" and found everything on one of the installs and
> didn't work nearly as well on the others.  I liked individual install and
> usability features of Corel, Red Hat, SuSe, and Mandrake, but I could never
> find one that really had all of the nice points that I liked.  Combining
> them would make for a much better (and friendlier) OS, as far as I am
> concerned.
>
> Another aspect of this for me is the way the installations can be
> customized.  For all I know, I would have been completely happy with the 6
> CD's of crap that came with SuSe if I had a better idea of what combination
> of things to install, but the docs were awful.  I think this is a case
> where too much latitude for the user can be overwhelming.
>
> As a final note, I think that better accommodations should be made for
> those of us that are not blessed with bootable CD drives.  None of the
> distros (that I have seen) let you use their lovely GUI install if you have
> to boot from a floppy.
>
> My two copper coins.  Let me know if I can help you out with this.
>
> Kevin Finch
> Network Administrator
> DST Systems, Inc.
> 816/435-6039
> krfinch at dstsystems.com