[Sussex] Searching for a distro....

[Geoffrey Teale]

Without any reservation the distro you are looking for is Arch Linux.

http://www.archlinux.org/

For reasons why read these:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_vs_Others
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

You're coming up with the same sort of wish list I had when I first found
it  - I'm pretty broadly experienced with distributions -  between work and
personal interest I stay current with Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, SuSe,
Foresight , Gentoo and gNewSense (not to mention OpenSolaris, OpenBSD and
FreeBSD).   I experience and appreciate the strenghts of all these systems,
but I always choose Arch for my day to day machines.  Though I can't condone
using non-free software you'll find it there for installtion in the standard
repositories and you'll be watching BBC iPlayer or whatever else you want to
do.

More important for me is that if something isn't in the core, extra or
community repository it may well be available in the AUR (Arch User
Repository) :

http://aur.archlinux.org/index.php

... and if it isn't there making a new package from source is trivial (I
mean really trivial) and can be learned by reading a single wiki page (or
the man page) which probably amounts to a side and a half of A4s worth of
text.  ...and when you're done you can submit your package back to the AUR -
and if people like it and trust it then it can get voted into the supported
community repository.
-- 
Geoff Teale
<tealeg at member.fsf.org>
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