Re: Which distro?

Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, all,

I've got several VPS's, and have been using Debian on all of them. It's
been working fine for me, with the exception of one site.

This one site is heavily modified due to some system requirements. Exim
recompiled with MySQL support, for instance, and a bunch of other things.

As a result, upgrading the system has become a nightmare, because you
have to check everything you're going to upgrade to ensure it's not
going to break something else.

So, what I'm looking for is a distro where I can install as little as
possible - if possible, just the basic OS (with networking, etc.).
Additional packages I will compile and install myself.

Any suggestions as to which would be the best distro for this?


Jerry

Slackware. There *is* no package system -- actually, "packages" are just
tar gz archives. No dependencies; if you break it, you own two (or more)
pieces.

It should do. I use it for basing heavily customized systems.



TIA.


.

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