[Cialug] Well "put together" Linux distros?

[Prescott Kulow]

If you want something "simple", I'd recommend Slackware.  The startup 
scripts are very simple, the packages are hardly ever modified from the 
actual upstream packages.  The packages themselves are just tarballs, 
rather than a complicated package system.  It's about as close to a 
"pure Linux", i.e no vendor specific changes, as you can get.  That 
being said, I'd hate to have to admin more than a few Slackware boxes.  
It's simple design makes it more work to keep up to date than something 
like Ubuntu or RedHat.



On 5/12/2012 1:29 PM, Nicolai wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for a clean, light, and well "put together" Linux distro that
> doesn't change its startup scripts, paths, and so on.  Something stable
> in that regard.  Very few symlinks and no symlink chains.
>
> I've played with Debian but am definitely open to others.
>
> Ubuntu should be at the opposite end of the spectrum.  What do you
> recommend and why?
>
> Nicolai
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