[buug] clean install wanted

[Rick Moen]

begin John d quotation:

> I have switched to slack ware from redhat today.  I did this because  I have
> read that slackware is very simple and configurable and it doesn't do alot
> for you, rather it lets you do what you want.

David S. is correct that NetBSD or OpenBSD would be another way to do
that -- and I would strongly recommend running one of the BSDs at one
point if you really want to know Unix well.  But also:

> I just want a bare bones *minimal* system...nothing that doesn't need
> to be set or be there!

You could install the Debian Base System, and stop there, exiting the
install at that point.  Total space taken up would be around 15 MB.
At that point, you could augment the system either using the built-in
apt-get utility, or by compiling from tarballs into /usr/local.

Please see:  http://linuxmafia.com/debian/tips

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