Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 09 May 2004 10:52:53 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | Re: Distributions vs kernel development | From | Rene Rebe <> |
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Hi,
On: Sun, 9 May 2004 08:07:06 +0100, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote: > > Since other use this chance to propose already well known > > distributions > > To be honest, why use a distribution at all, or if you do use one, why worry > about 'following' it after installation, instead of using it as a base from > which to do your own thing?
In this case you might want to know that ROCK Linux is not yet another distribution but a distribution build kit including and build system to rebuild the whole distribution in a sorted and clean manner.
And no, it is not like Gentoo where you need to rebuild on each box or so.
> Of course, it sounds like a lot more effort to install whatever you need from > scratch, but you also more or less cut out distribution-specific issues, such > as one package depending on another, and of course you get much more > flexibility.
Well, as I mentioned there is not much ROCK Linux specific in ROCK Linux. Mostly it consists of this auto build system including a huge set (1200 at the moment) package descriptions allowing convenient single package or whole system (re-)builds.
http://www.rocklinux.org/handbook.html
Sincerely yours, René Rebe - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer
-- René Rebe - Europe/Germany/Berlin rene@rocklinux.org rene@rocklinux-consulting.de http://www.rocklinux.org http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de
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