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Sorcerer is a simple yet powerful source based distribution for advanced systems administration. The package management system of Sorcerer is called sorcery. Sorcery is comprised of modular, easily modified, command line and menu driven BASH scripts. A system administrator, SA, wielding sorcery can keep FHS 2.2 complaint Sorcerer boxes current with the latest stable software releases. Sorcerer offers most of the features of modern GNU/Linux distributions. There is a menu driven installer on the Installation / Rescue CD image simplifes the creation of a new box. After installation sorcery provides both command line and menu driven tools for package management. Software installed by sorcery, with few exceptions, are the authors' latest stable release. Compiling software with the optimizations, options, and architecture that the SA specifies is how a Sorcerer box achieves excellent run-time performance. Sorcery can discover and automatically fix broken library dependencies caused by an upgrade or removal of a library. As new sources become available sorcery need only download the difference between the latest sources and the current source. Thus it provides upgrades to new software at a cost of downloading which is signficiantly less than any other distribution. Nearly every aspect of sorcery is configurable. All features can be enabled and disabled. Distribution homepage |
