[plug] Optimized Distro

Andrew Goldfinch andrew at kingfrat.com
Tue Jul 15 22:14:21 WST 2003


Unsure about what the local chaps have to offer, but this guy's DVDs are good value debian distributions. The complete woody dvd is very handy, plus he does a double-sided src one too.

http://www.lordsutch.com/cds/

A.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:53:50AM +0800, Weirdo wrote:
> I have just compiled my kernel, optimized for my Celeron 466 on a Debian r0 
> system. I know that Debian packages are compiled so that they will run on a 
> 386 up. I like the Gentoo approach of compiling every thing so that it is 
> optimized. I don't know how it resolves dependences though. I also know 
> that Debian has src packages although I don't think they are on CD.
> I am looking for a distro where I can optimized my packages but I like the 
> apt-get in Debian. It would need to be like Debian but with large 
> components compiled from source. I don't know if this can be done with 
> Debian considering I am on 56k.
> Please help me ether get apt-get source working with details on getting 
> source on cd or some thing else.
> Thanks
> Tim
> 
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