On Tuesday 13 December 2005 8:02 am, Jo Shields wrote: > Debian isn't a "source based" distro like gentoo - if you really want to > do that, look at "Debian from Scratch" - though I'd not recommend > source-based distributions If you are referring to DFS - Debian from Scratch from John Goerzen, http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/ it is not source based either - it simply allows you to boot into a Debian system from CD and provides a collection of packages for installing your system manually from the command line. You still use the same deb's from the same mirrors or the CD. It works very well though and gives you absolute control over the install, and makes a great rescue disk - its not for anyone shy of the command line though. JCM -- John C. Martin - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~jomartin * Please be aware that non-encrypted e-mail is NOT a secured communication * vehicle, and that others may in certain circumstances be able to view its * contents. You should encrypt your e-mail. Disclaimers in your e-mail * signature about confidentiality and designated recipients are silly and * useless. That is what public key encryption is for. * Use my gpg key to ensure privacy - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~jomartin/John.gpg
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