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It's effectively like having a polish Linux system

I.e., it's like this?

I don't really think so.

I've been using poldek for a past few years, and recently also on FC5. It's 10 times faster than yum to begin with (and it of course uses rpm-lib, so I don't think the ``speed'' of yum is rpm's fault and any rewrite is going to help with that). It also has this really cool interactive mode (shell-like), with package name completion.

It's a pity the package indexes supplied by Fedora don't contain file names, so you cannot search for a specific file you need. OTOH I can understand that if they did, yum would be even slower.

-- Michal

PLD has lots and lots of polish actually

As a general rule the strength or weakness of the distributions packages has less to do with the package file format, and more to do with the tender loving care devoted to each package in terms of specifing all of it'd dependencies, what it obsoletes, what functionality it provides.

I second that. I've been using PLD Linux for a while now. It's RPM-based, but it takes RPM to a whole new level. The package management tool, poldek, is nothing short of amazing: Regexp searches, trivial package installation, extreme modularity (programs are broken down into multiple packages), consistent dependences. Best of all, it just works.

You can put LIDS on such a live CD for intrusion rejection. Instead of booting from a physical CD, use PXE to pull the .iso from a private network. A server-oriented distro will fit in a 25-50Mb compressed filesystem. E.g. any member of a diskless cluster of LIDS-enabled reverse-proxy web servers can detect an attack, reboot from PXE and be back online in short order. You gain flexibility by having the boot image(s) on the private network (which can itself be running a live CD).

Have done this from scratch with RedHat, but there's now a live CD with LIDS, SELinux and UML: Adios. Haven't used Adios yet, but it's probably worth a look.

The RPM-based PLD Rescue CD is also a good starting point (though their web site is currently in flux).

As use of virtualization (VMware, UML, vserver, Virtuozzo) increases, it will be easier to view a virtual node as a combination of read-only boot image + configuration. VMware can even do magic with a read-only base disk image and multiple virtual machines having concurrent read-write access to increments to the base. Later updates to the ancestral base propagate to the virtual, composite 'child' images.

Contains 130Mb of tools on a 50 MB ISO. Can run from RAM, so CD can be removed after boot.

Long Live Poland!

Brave people that told the bullying Dutch simply to fuck off.

Thanks for the no-Patents support :)

PLD = good distro (pretty hard tho)

The Polish have been very kind.
As a sign of respect - please check out their Linux Distro
which they are very happy to share with the world,
getting lots of feedback.

So if you want to show your appreciation
please have a look into this wonderful distro
and join their friendly and chatty mailing list.

Thank you.

(ok how do I post this anonymously now?)

The Polish have been very kind.
As a sign of respect - please check out their Linux Distro
which they are very happy to share with the world,
getting lots of feedback.

So if you want to show your appreciation
please have a look into this wonderful distro
and join their friendly and chatty mailing list.

Thank you.

(ok how do I post this anonymously now?)

http://www.pld-linux.org/index_html?set_language=e n&cl=en

GNOME 2.8? KDE 3.3? Evolution 2.0? Firefox? http://www.pld-linux.org/ got there first...

ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/1.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/
ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/
http://www.pld-linux.org/ (web page not working at the moment as they have some problems, but distro is very active).

ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/1.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/
ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/
http://www.pld-linux.org/ (web page not working at the moment as they have some problems, but distro is very active).

ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/1.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/
ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/
http://www.pld-linux.org/ (web page not working at the moment as they have some problems, but distro is very active).

http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/

I think PLD (Or in English) tries to be highly modularized:

no restrictions for a set of packages that must be included in the distribution. The user can have access to every package already prepared for PLD. If something had been prepared in conjunction with other packages, it means somebody did need it, and maybe someone will need that package in the future

Now, this is not to suggest that PLD does this well, or that it does this actually implements what Progeny is suggesting, but it's still a starting point.

Poland Rules!

As the Linux distro I prefer is maintained by Poles, I can certainly agree. :)

And this:

PLD Rescue CD

It fits on a single 50MB mini-cd, so you can carry it in your wallet. Saved me a lot of trouble quite a few times. Watch the list of available applications, it's very impressive.