Its what you will get, because the big boys in the Linux distro world is aiming for aunt Tillie and office drones.<p>These days, if you want to do your thing with your Linux install there are perhaps two big names. Gentoo and Slackware. Beyond that you get a smattering of smaller distros on shoestring maintenance.<p>Sadly much of the upstream is under control of previously mentioned big boys, and they seem to have a crusade going where only their approach matters.