Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Apr 2007 17:32 UTC, submitted by surrounder
TriedIT reviews CRUX 2.3, and concludes: "CRUX 2.3 is simple, but not from a user standpoint. It does require a lot of manual installation and configuration. It also doesn't come with a bunch of pre-installed software either. But the distribution is meant for experienced users, after all. It is definitely simple from a system standpoint, however. There's no complex hardware auto-detection, or heavy weight desktop environments, 3D desktops or proprietary video card drivers. The package system is also pretty simple, but includes source-based package installation. There are no fancy GUI configuration utilities (or even console-based ones)."
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2006-09-21
Crux is quite simple for the user. But you are talking about a different type of user.
Some of us prefer to edit the configuration files and scripts by hand. In a distribution like Crux, that is quite easy to do because the system is designed to be understood at that level. The same goes for creating packages: the package description files are so simple that they are beautiful. They are also easy to construct. That means that it is almost as easy to create a package for other people to use as it is to build the software using configure; make; make install directly.
The way that packages are shared is refreshing too. In most distributions they are smushed together in one giant repository. In Crux they are separated by user. It is usually easy to find a user who shares a similar philosophy to you, so you can get packages with build options that you like.