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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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thought i would pass this on so you all could tell me what i left out of a 
ten 
line advert for SMGL

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Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Choice of distro
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 12:56 pm
From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
To: kde-linux AT kde.org

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On Sun, 25 May 2003 08:14 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> While I have my soapbox out, I would suggest that GNU/FSF make a
> LSB/RPM/SV distro that was 100% compatible with packages built from
> source (this would mean that it would not conform to the FHS :-().
> This could start with just enough to boot to the console (and GCC) as
> a base for building the system from scratch.

not RPM based but it does have package management and starts with a minimun
install (iso is about 200M) you get your choice of
1) devel (cutting edge, but can bleed all over your computer)
2) test (more uptodate than stable)
3) stable ( tried and tested)
package management system is (console) menu driven and bash based so even
newbies can get under the hood of their computer. Many choices of
optimizations for your processor, a flexible dependancy system, md5sum and
gpg based verification of sources, adherence to LSB (whenever possible :-))
and a kickass support community make SMGL (SourceMage Gnu Linux) very
appealing.
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Hamish Greig
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