On Apr 19, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: >> > > There is a major change I'd like to see but I don't have the energy to > do it. I don't like the Xorg chapter with its scripted downloading and > compiling. It seems to me to be at odds with the rest of BLFS. I'd like > to see every Xorg package with its own page complete with dependencies > (they aren't all required). But it'd be such a big job I don't think > it'll ever happen.
Trust me when I say this, you do not want that, it is a big mess. When modular X first came out I had made a modified version of the book (albeit incomplete), much like what your proposing. Hmm, would love to hunt the archive and find that cause I know I posted a link to it. >> Should we tackle a LiveCD again? > > As a BLFS thing? I thought the Live CD was a separate project. It seems > to me that the big problem with a live CD is supporting all the > hardware that's out there. With a lot of work we could get it to work > on all the computers we have but every other person who tried it would > have new hardware issues. It would be a labour of Sisyphus. > I recently tried both Fedora and Ubunut 32 bit on 2 of my computers and > neither of them could work my graphics cards (recent ATI that require > firmware). Oddly the x86_64 versions worked. >From what work I've done with the existing LiveCD, hardware support is >actually pretty good with a modular kernel, though between KMS and like you >point out newer ATI cards that need firmware it can get interesting. Really a >LiveCD would not be hard to revive, it just needs some people willing to >maintain it. I've been working on it off and on as a back burner kind of >project. It needs a lot more than one person doing which is why I believe >Alexander gave up on it. Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
