Another quick question from the Baconator :D

[onlinebacon]

Hehe,

I am not allowed internet in my bedroom when I get to the new house we are moving into

Anyone Know a good distro with a decent package manager that doesnt need the internet?

Has to be a fast distro, please and techinal

[dylunio]

Ach, you still haven't got them to give you internt?

Suse commes with pretty much everything under the sun...but isn't very technical (shudder...YaST). On the other hand a distro like Slackware is commes with all you need for a computer...but isn't as good if you want the kitchen sink too like with Suse.

Personnaly I'd say slack...but's it's slightly lacking if you want the kitchen sink too

[onlinebacon]

Hmmm... I guess slack would be OK, cos .tgz packages would probably do what I want to do. Are there actually any advanced rpm distros?

[GNOME_n00b]

Hmmm... I guess slack would be OK, cos .tgz packages would probably do what I want to do. Are there actually any advanced rpm distros?

rpmdrake(ie the package manager) in mandriva is pretty good.

[onlinebacon]

OKey dokey, thanks everyone, done some looking and it is fedora, damnsmalllinux or slackware for me

Thanks a lot

[GNOME_n00b]

what package amanager are you going to use for fedora? don't bother with yum or apt/synaptic because they're completely useless without an internet connection. i use a package manager called Smart - this is good for what you want.

[onlinebacon]

Cool, smart it is Thanks for that

Edit: And a quick question, would it be better if I had a seprate home, instead of just root and swap, not sure how fedora updates when fc5 comes around

[dylunio]

If you intend playing around with a bunch of distro's you may want to share /home by putting it on a separate partition, though this can have problems when it commes to the configuration files in /home, but this is only realy applicable if you have more than one distro on at once (in this situation I have a partition full of my files that I mount in /home/dylunio/files - that way my settings don't get messed up when I use one of my other distro's).

dylunio

[onlinebacon]

Okey Dokey, read around and made my final decision, no dual or tri booting cos it is a waste of time for me, Fedora Core is mine, muhahahahaha.

And KANOTIX for some convertin' :P

[GNOME_n00b]

you may want to share /home by putting it on a separate partition, though this can have problems when it commes to the configuration files in /home

what problem are they? i have home in a separate partition.


onlinebacon

i suggested Smart because the package manager that comes with fedora is ultra basic and completely rubbish - it doesn't allow any flexibility whatsoever (can't install individual packages, can't have any other rpm source other than the disk that fedora is supplied on, zero(literally!!) configuration options, etc etc). thats why you'll have to add your own favourite package manager. so because i couldn't choose yast or rpmdrake, i chose Smart.