Re: Distributions vs kernel development

[Rene Rebe <rene@rocklinux-consulting.de>]

Hi,

On: Sun, 9 May 2004 08:07:06 +0100,
    John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote:
> > Since other use this chance to propose already well known
> > distributions
> 
> To be honest, why use a distribution at all, or if you do use one, why worry
> about 'following' it after installation, instead of using it as a base from
> which to do your own thing?

In this case you might want to know that ROCK Linux is not yet another
distribution but a distribution build kit including and build system
to rebuild the whole distribution in a sorted and clean manner.

And no, it is not like Gentoo where you need to rebuild on each box or
so.

> Of course, it sounds like a lot more effort to install whatever you need from
> scratch, but you also more or less cut out distribution-specific issues, such
> as one package depending on another, and of course you get much more
> flexibility.

Well, as I mentioned there is not much ROCK Linux specific in ROCK
Linux. Mostly it consists of this auto build system including a huge
set (1200 at the moment) package descriptions allowing convenient
single package or whole system (re-)builds.

  http://www.rocklinux.org/handbook.html

Sincerely yours,
  René Rebe
    - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer

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