Quote Originally Posted by Doc
OK you got my attention, what's the deal? Why you excited
Well.........a few of the devs are always on IRC irc.freenode.net #sourcemage and very willing to help out. I had a few glitches during the install and I would have spent hourse looking for answers but they got me hooked up right away. To install an app you do cast -r -c <name of spell> and it downloads, configures and installes the app. It's a very nice way of resolving those pain in the arse dependency problems. Getting a new kernel is easy too. cast -r -c linux will get you the list of available kernels directly from kernel.org and allow you to choose which (if any) patches you'd like applied. It dl's the kernel to /usr/src unpacks it, brings up menuconfig and builds the kernel. It even installs the kernel- you just need to edit LILO (if you use that sort of thing). It's really a slick way to get things done AND it's a Debian based distro. If you like the idea of a really fast distro taht is custom built for your box but don't like the idea of spending days building Gentoo Sourcemage is the way to go IMHO.