I am aware of that. I was giving an overview of why I chose LFS, where I am in the LFS build process and where I intend to go with it. This wasn't a call for help (for now), but was to say that there are new people interested in the LFS project.
Excellent, Reece! Welcome! Yes, I think if anything, we aren't at a spot where we need to be concerned about being boring. Those of us who have been dorking with LFS for a few years might observe the project to be a bit quieter now, but this is the nature of software development. As Dan pointed out, now is the time to get more users (testers) of this wonderful and maturing project. It is reaching a point where we can recommend to someone who has never used Linux to actually start with LFS. I wouldn't have even considered this as of LFS 4.x, as it was very unstable. If anything, we should be proud that we are making the project stable to the point of being (almost) boring. This will allow us to do some more aggressive feature/package hunting, since our time is not just spent on fixing current patches and toolchains. Imagine having a BLFS book with the table of contents the size of Debian's package list or even bigger? I am about to hand off a VERY stable LFS-6.2 -- BLFS-SVN build to a buddy of mine that is a windows user, and I am confident he will be comfortable enough with it, so much so he just might get a real interest in this project. To wrap up, I don't think that Randy's concerns about the project's lull are unfounded, but at the same time, this shouldn't be depressing at all. It's sort of like a boy/girl becoming a man/woman. The change can be scary, but hey, you can go to a bar! In LFS terms this means more exciting features, even to the point of driving the development process upstream to the package maintainers. More and more often nowadays I do a google search and find LFS results. This can't be a bad thing no matter how you look at it. I think our biggest challenge as we scale won't be getting testers/users or making it stable, but remembering our roots (we aren't a distro, we're a book) :) Thanks to all. I hope this can provide a little perspective. Enjoy, Craig Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
