what is my distro

zetrotrack000 · 02-02-2012, 12:39 PM

Hi
I am looking for a distro and I have following requirements;
1. It should be a full rolling distro.
2. It should be available in minimal iso which contains kernel along with basic system utilities but no gui or any desktop.
3. It should be an independent distro and not based on any other.
4. It should contain a package manager.
Can anyone tell me about a distro which fulfils this requirements?
Regards

snowpine · 02-02-2012, 12:43 PM

Arch.

pljvaldez · 02-02-2012, 01:11 PM

Arch is good, as mentioned above. Debian testing or unstable are also essentially rolling distros, though Arch is probably a bit more bleeding edge. There's also aptosid (based on Debian unstable branch) and OpenSuse (only if you use the Tumbleweed repositories). And we can't forget Gentoo...

sycamorex · 02-02-2012, 01:24 PM

+1 for Arch in this particular situation.

zetrotrack000 · 02-03-2012, 06:11 AM

Arch is good but its package manager is not as good as debian. For example, its package manager downloads very slow and also takes a lot of break between downloading every file, also it does not give the remaining time, is there any way to make arch's package manager more explanatory?

FredGSanford · 02-05-2012, 02:53 PM

I always find Sourcemage to be interesting when I have the time. There is crux Linux but not sure if its a complete rolling release.

Of course any of the others mention above also.

John VV · 02-05-2012, 09:02 PM

if you want a rolling with a minimal install
then install Arch and NO desktop or use xfce