From: Kevin C. <ke...@co...> - 2008-05-12 16:39:13
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On 10 May 2008 at 9:31, Pete Stieber <pst...@ve...> wrote: > DM> 4. The question about 'which linux distro do I use > DM> seems to have been left hanging somehow... > DM> I was fairly sure I answered that one. Not to worry... > DM> I've been personally building & using my own > DM> 'hand rolled' linux systems ever since I read > DM> 'The Bash to boot prompt howto' and concluding that > DM> (quote) "it looked like a fun thing to do". > DM> ...and that must've been nearly a decade ago - how > DM> time flies... > DM> > DM> There's also a couple of Debian 4.0 boxes here that > DM> I look after for other house members. I can rattle > DM> together deb packages in both 32 and 64 bit flavors > DM> if need be...whenever that time comes of course.... > > Kevin C. might want to comment on that. IIRC he was interested in > packaging and distribution; if I can ever get anything ready to distribute. I've been using Mandriva over here. I package everything for that. It's an RPM based distribution, which means that my packaging can be a great headstart for any other RPM based system, e.g. Red Hat & SuSE. Debian based systems are another story. I've never built any packages for those. Cheers.... -- Kevin |