Randy McMurchy wrote: The entire LFS project seems to be in the toilet. Am I the only one that thinks this?
No. Am I over reacting? No. Is there anyone else concerned about the health of the project? Yes. ------------------------------ Despite the fact that I have stopped using it myself, and no longer make comments on the lists (today is an exception, i.e. what rules are for), I still think that 'rolling your own' is the only way to really understand UNIX. You learn far more in a week of building LFS/BLFS than you will get from installing Ubuntu from LiveCD in a lifetime. There is a place for Ubuntu, it's for people who don't need to understand, 'cos they have support teams, or they only want a working email/wp/web system. It also helps wean the faint-hearted off Windows. The big problem is that a lot of the old problems have now been solved. Five years ago, building LFS took a lot of guts, and it was complicated, and because the toolchain was weak, it broke a lot and you needed to think hard (and talk on the lists hard too) to fix it. Now we have almost foolproof scripts and a toolchain that's rock solid, so the support questions are all RTFMs. Where is the challenge? Even the actual book editing isn't as difficult as once it was. Good XML has taken all the struggle out of even that. I went over to CLFS for a while, and it's good, very good, but it isn't a big stretch, there isn't really an intellectual 'voyage of discovery' there any more. So I think the project needs a challenge. Trouble is I can't think what it is! Blessings and peace, Richard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
