Distro update methods [was RE: market continues to dive!]

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:36 AM
> To: david nicol
> Cc: Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy; kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: market continues to dive!
> 
>... Besides I'm not overly pleased 
> with either the
> deb or rpm package format and was thinking of making my own just for
> kicks. ;)
You seriously need to check out gentoo. It use a portage system, similar
to the
ports method used by FreeBSD. And if that doesn't suit you, you should
check out
FreeBSD. I didn't like it when I tried it, but it was a long time ago.
But many
people do like it. It is a good OS, with a good updating methodology. I
really wish
Linux had one, other than portage. Don't get me wrong, I really like
portage, but
Linux needs one that can do the same thing for compiled packages. So if
you want to
make your own please take the portage system as your base. ;')

Brian