On 11/10/10 10:44 AM, ken wrote: > > Alternatively, you could also check out Slackware. In my opinion Slackware is still the best distribution for actually learning about GNU/Linux. I'm a little biased, though, I've been running it since 4.0 (and had accounts on other systems running it prior to that). > The last time I > looked at it (several years ago) it didn't use rpm or apt or any package > management system at all, just tgz files. Recently that's changed to .txz for the greater level of compression, but oterwise it's the same. Pkgtool is really simple and straight forward. > This is what Linux used to be > before there was a redhat... and it's generally how code files are > handled in development before they become rpms... or whatever. Slack is great because of its strong adherance to the KISS principle. > Source code shouldn't scare anyone. It's interesting stuff and > harmless... just text files, after all. If your students are going to > hack around with it and compile it (which I would hope they would do), > then of course you'll want to take appropriate measures. Yep. I still don't see why some people are so afraid of: ./configure [options] make make install [make clean] If it doesn't work it will tell you. Regards, Ben -- Ben McGinnes http://www.adversary.org/ Twitter: benmcginnes Systems Administrator, Writer, ICT Consultant Encrypted email preferred - primary OpenPGP/GPG key: 0xA04AE313 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x371AC5BFA04AE313 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101011/d2660fa8/attachment-0004.sig>