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Whats an alternative to Red Hat and Slackware that is a good distro with compilers in the install(not interested in gentoo)....
- 12-21-2003 #1Just Joined!
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Whats an alternative to Red Hat and Slackware that is a good distro with compilers in the install(not interested in gentoo).
- 12-21-2003 #2Linux Engineer
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Debian, Suse, Mandrake
Those are also very big distro's..
You could look at distrowatch.com for others etc
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suse is a really good one but IMHO who needs an alternative to slackware
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If you're looking for a source distro (i.e.: compile everything) then (excluding Gentoo) I think that you can do that using Slackware. Also the little known Source Mage.
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- 12-22-2003 #5Linux User
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Slackware rocks (of course
Originally Posted by sarumont If you're looking for a source distro (i.e.: compile everything) then (excluding Gentoo) I think that you can do that using Slackware. Also the little known Source Mage.
)SourceMage is great though really and u could use a less known distro like Nasgaia (www.nasgaia.org)
for example.Me I'm using slackware
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I hate repetition .. but .. Slackware is God.
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