[clug] Failed OS updates - and a request

[Martin Pool]

On 21 Apr 2003, Felix Karpfen <felixk at webone.com.au> wrote:

> Both these distributions appear to be following the path successfully
> pioneered by Microsoft - a path that says to the user: "You do not know
> what you want; _we do_".

If you feel strongly about this, you might like to try Linux From
Scratch:

  http://www.au.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/intro.shtml

I'm sure it would be an enormously educational experience.

If you want a small installation then it might well be possible to do
it over a modem.  I remember downloading kernel packages at
33k6... :-)

-- 
Martin