from "O. Hartmann" <[email protected]>; > Hello out there,
> well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based > systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe > support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of Linux > facility to ensure having the software and tools I need for my work. I'm > looking for a Linux distribution that is similar handled like FreeBSD, where > I'm able to rebuild the whole system from sources, not even the the Linux > kernel, also the GNU tools and the packages. Maybe there are some people out > here having already taken this step. > Any suggestion is appreciated, > thanks in advance, > Oliver When I first saw that question, my first thoughts were Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/ Linux from Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Lunar Linux http://www.lunar-linux.org/ Slackware is a full Linux distribution with its own binary, not source, package manager that knows nothing about dependencies. Linux does not come with a BSD-style base system, though a full distribution has many packages already put together and ready to install (like PC-BSD?). >From what I could tell from the web sites, Gentoo and Lunar Linux have package >managers included, but Linux from Scratch doesn't. One package manager I've thought of for Linux is NetBSD pkgsrc, which has been ported to many Unixes and quasi-Unixes, am not sure what to start with for Linux. There is System Rescue CD, which includes gcc/GNU tools, which might work as a starter: I haven't tried but plan to do what you plan to do, when I get that new computer I've been planning on, in addition to FreeBSD and perhaps NetBSD. http://www.sysresccd.org/ Tom _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
