i have never ran xandros but i can say that ubuntu (breezyor hoary) have few to no problems. there are somethings that people have isssues with but i havent found any since the release date

Don't know why slake would be any more "as close to UNIX as you can get", as some distros, including Slack, Deb ... do try to implement the LFSS (LFHS) ( another good mission for goggle). I can never remember the correct initials for that.

Once its taken on board more completely, and most distros seem to get pretty close, then well have cross distro package capability. Which would be just __so__ good. As well as killing the Linux criticism of being "fractured", that the likes of MS like to attack with.


syg00 wrote:
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Contradiction in terms.

Anybody doesn't like every-one else' standard(s), go create your own distro, and make your own standards ...
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Isn't that just the problem though. Have you ever seen a person with a bundle of straw sweep the dust from outside her place --- off to the side --- Then the person next door doing the same. Until it goes all the way around that block, back to were it started -- and life goes on its merry way ...

reddazz wrote:
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Even Debian does things its own way i.e. not standardised Just pick a distro you like and use it because they all do some things differently to others.
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As for Debs attitude to standards, they align with those promoted by the GNU/FSF. So i can't see a point there, as they are very much involved in the promotion of things like the LFSS (LFHS)

All the symlinks from /usr/doc over to /usr/share/doc were just there so that when people installed none debafied programs on a deb system, they would still be able to function, if thats where they went looking for docs.

I notice that companies that have a linux port of one of their proprietary programs, available only as a binary and opting for an install in "opt" or in a top level package named directory are the main culprits in this regard.

The wheels are turning though -=- it will happen


jm

someone above wrote "why not just write your own distro. i think thats why we have so many distros for linux out is because people took a basic debain/redhat/slack base and added their own packages to it but hell take debian most of thier other distros "libranet, ubuntu, ect...."
have the same packages. i want to write my own kernel but hell got a longgggggggggg way before that happens the kernels are not wrote in just straight C or C++ its a combination of a bunch of languges. oh and btw ive been thinking and if as standard you mean clocest to UNIX i would have to say gentoo.

Howdy ..,

I'm curious as to why you would think Gentoo ...

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ive been thinking and if as standard you mean clocest to UNIX i would have to say gentoo.
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was "closest to UNIX", as you put it. When you think of gentoo, what is it your drawing on to come to a conclusion like that. I tend to find perception traces interesting exercises at times


jm

LFS probably.

i was assuming most standardized distro he meant UNIX like distro and to me gentoo is the most UNIX like. just take installation for example its all manul you have to partition and everything by hand no GUI either and UNIX has no GUI the GUI is from the linux kernel. but like ive said before there is no such thing as a standard distro of linux thats what makes it linux

UNIX OSes do have guis. CDE, GNOME etc for Solaris and FreeBSD has as many if not more than most Linux distros and the installation isn't as complicated as gentoo. The FreeBSD installation is almost similar to installing Slackware.

redd i said UNIX has no GUI linux does. when i said no GUI after saying take installation for example i meant its not a graphical installation its text.

I agree with reddazz,, the BSD's are unix, and Slackware is the closest UNIX like that exists in the world of linux..

when was gentoo classified under a BSD distro i thought gentoo was linux and why wouldnt it be more like unix since unix is only a commandline app.

I still don't get your point. Historically all UNIX variants have been intalled via a text interfce (including Linux), but not anymore. PCBSD and Desktop BSD have gui installers and I am sure Solaris has.

I mentioned Gentoo as an example of a distro with a complicated intall process when compared to some of the UNIX variants out there. Its not a BSD based operating system but it copies the ports system from FreeBSD for package management.

Being a text based only OS does not make one UNIX variant more UNIX than the other. There have been GUI's for UNIX variants for a long time, some people prefer to use them and others don't.

most distributions I can think of have a patched kernel in some way or another. So of the top of my head...mmm... Slackware would be your best bet. Without doing any real research this is my first choice. Otherwise look around maybe Linux From Scratch?