On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, "Martin Polley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you looked at Gentoo? It's definitely not a beginner's distro, but > you can install as much or as little as you want. I think you can have a very minimal Slackware system too. And in Debian, you can have an extremely minimal system too (I've had systems in the 10mb range). In contrast, in gentoo, gcc and make (somewhat large packages) and Python (which is nice, but also large) are essential - I doubt you could go below the 100mb line for an installed system. Also, remember that frequently compiling from source takes a lot of diskspace. > And it is supposedly very fast Key word: "supposedly". Do you have any benchmarks? > because you can compile EVERYTHING from > source (with local optimizations). You meant "have to compile", right? Debian *lets* you easily compile from source, but in gentoo you have to compile your whole system yourself. I'd recommend either Debian (certainly for the servers) or a floppy-based distro (for the firewall). ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
