[Linux4christians] Pastors using Linux (and my choice ofdistro!)

[Davy Mitchell]

You should maybe also consider
DSL www.damnsmalllinux.org
or
Vector www.vectorlinux.com

DSL can run live and is very easy to customise. 

Take care,
Davy Mitchell

www.latedecember.com


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:03:34 -0500, l4c <l4c at thelinuxlink.net> wrote:
> Samuel Clough wrote:
> > I assume Net BSD has a ports system that provides
> > everything you commonly run?
> >
> > Hmm.  I have an old 300+ Mhz box that's not doing
> > anything.  Perhaps it's time for a NetBSD
> > install...
> 
> Sure does, but the symantecs of NetBSD are ports=different archetectures
> and packages=different softwares.  You'll want to check out the package
> collection at http://netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html ...
>   Now there are 2 ways to do even that.  You can download and install
> the binary packages, or you can download and install the pkgsrc tree.
> The later is very good if you have an extra couple hundred megs to
> spare.  You simply download the pkgsrc tarball and untar it to
> /usr/pkgsrc and then there will be directory structure you can navigate
> to find the package you want.  Say for instance you want to install
> bash.  You gfo to /usr/pkgsrc/shells/bash and then do a configure, a
> make, and a make install.  The software you selected (in this case bash)
> would have the source downloaded, patched, built and installed on your
> system.  It will also automatically download, patch, build and install
> any necessary dependencies.
> The other way of doing things is using the precompiled binaries.  That's
> easy too.  Just hit the netbsd website and surf the package tree until
> you find what you want, download it and run pkg_add on it.  Locally this
> looks like pkg_add <package_name>, however you can also do this directly
> through ftp by doing pkg_add
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/<os_release>/<arch>/<type>/<package>
> which is my prefered method because it will many times auto download and
> install any dependencies as well.
> 
> --
> -Linc Fessenden
> 
> In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
> 
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