Arch Linux Vs Crux Vs Slackware
For the last 5 years I've been using Gentoo as my main OS, however recently portage doesn't seem to want to install anything.. major issues with installing libreoffice (libreoffice-bin installs fine) I'm not the only one with issues and I loved gentoo because of the Cflags and Useflags.. But it's unusable at the moment and I can't just wait for it to be fixed.
So, I basically have it narrowed down to Arch, Crux, and Slackware linux. Crux and Slackware install software from source but don't know if they contain Cflags and Useflags.. I like arch as it's easy to install, an LVM+Luks setup takes about 10 minutes to install along with base and grub2 using pacstrap. I have never installed slack or crux, I'm leaning towards crux because it's like arch just a bit more stable but I believe I can still get the same package version. I like slackware because of it's age, I don't like that it's a 2GB download, slack needs a minimal or net install... Now I've been using Linux since the early 2000s and never had issues with installing, but crux really doesn't have a decent wiki to go by unless there's an install.txt file with the iso. |
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Plus look at: http://docs.slackware.com/ for good install instructions. Your kernel compile methods are doable with Slackware: Compile source code - and solve problems | TuxRadar Linux or use; Quote:
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@ Rukiri
I tried crux awhile ago. The base install is from the iso. The only thing you need to build is the kernel. Since you're a gentoo user you probably already know how to build a kernel. Crux uses a package system similar to bsd to compile software for installation. I used crux in a vm for about three weeks. Some ports had trouble fetching other ports and I had to manually get them myself. I thought it was a network issue or busy sites but I tried again later and some ports just wouldn't get downloaded. Crux was short live for me. Slack is a different story. It is solid and has a big community that supports the distro. You won't go wrong with slackware. Arch Compared to Other Distributions https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._Distributions |
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