On 15 February 2010 19:59, Mike McCarty <mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Since I'm on the verge of starting in to build BLFS, it would > be helpful to know when the next release may be available. I > realize that can be very difficult to estimate when you do something > not full time.
Most people who use blfs should use the development version. Sometimes, parts are so old that they either don't build or are very buggy, but other parts are perfectly good and up to date. Contrast to releases where *everything* is frozen at a point in the past. If you run into difficulties on a package, look at open tickets and check -patches in case the solution is already known. And if anyone wonders why I'm not contributing to blfs-6.5 ... my current system is a lot closer to 6.6, and x86_64 only (so, the box-ticking SBU and space figures won't match), plus like somebody a few weeks ago I've got problems _somewhere_ in xorg / mesa / xscreensaver with an old radeon graphics card. To say nothing of sundry problems in gnome-2.28 which are either down to me (failed to noticed 'help' was mostly broken in my 2.26 install, can't be arsed to investigate now I've notciced it in 2.28), or just the way things are (epiphany on webkit is not fully functional, e.g. for passwords). Oh, and youtube on firefox using gnash is again broken for me, but that might again be down to something I'm doing or not doing. Summary: current blfs-dev is immensly more likely to work on a recent system than the 6.3 release. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
