Hi, I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France), and a 100% GNU/Linux users since about 2001. After checking out various distros, I've been using Slackware exclusively for the last two years or so.
A few weeks ago, I decided to take on the LFS course, so I dutifully subscribed to the LFS support list, read (and enjoyed) the (well-written) book, and it took me about two weeks time to boot into a shiny LFS system. In my everyday life, I happen to install Linux quite often around me. Looks like I will soon do this for a living, since I recently applied for a sysadmin job in my little hometown, and it looks like there is no one else around for this (800 people, mostly farmers :oD). My ideal system is: a) a base no-frills Slackware install, which means base system, development tools, X.org plus all available libraries b) from here, install everything from source with a series of build scripts working hand in hand with checkinstall. For example, xfce-install will install the latest XFCE from source, tuned to my special needs. Actually, I'm working on a minimal GNOME configuration that would allow me to use a few GNOME apps such as Evince, Rhythmbox or the likes, to run under XFCE. More general question: I find the BLFS book *very* helpful for my needs, since configuration options, dependencies and such things are rather well explained (for GNOME, I use the SVN version of the book). Now... is it possible for me to participate on this list with the odd question... or is the use of Slackware as a "base" install considered a heresy? Regards, Niki Kovacs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
