[ale] Distro

[jrickman at gmail.com (Jonathan Rickman)]

I'll break down the four mentioned as I see them.

Gentoo - Ok, so we can compile the whole distro...whooopedeeeedooooo!!! 

Debian - Has a package manager that is "different" but very useful.
Confusing release system. Tons of available software.

FreeBSD - not a linux distro. Tons of available software.

Slackware - Is basically FreeBSD's first cousin who had a kernel
transplant immediately after birth. It allows you to compile the whole
release from source (scripts in the source tree), has a package
manager that is "different" but very useful, and a very simple release
system that consists of a current dev branch and a release branch.
Tons of available software.

I think you can see where I'm headed...

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Jonathan