On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:29:52 -0600 Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The LiveCD project rarely hears much back from its end users, unless > Of course any other thoughts or comments are welcome. We really just > need to get an idea of how useful our project is to the community. If > it's too much work to answer the above, just a short reply saying you > use the CD would be helpful, too. Whilst I applaud and support the LiveCD project, I don't use the 'product' myself, but I thought, for completeness, and out of respect for the developers, that I should say why. Read CLFS for LFS, I use them both on occasion, but mostly jhalfs+clfs-svn these days. 1) It ruins the fun of discovering if LFS will build on a new machine. This isn't true really, but it seems to me that some of the frison of that first boot is lost. 2) Once I've got a rudimentary LFS running, then I would use that to bootstrap the next model. Although LFS has gotten so good and reliable these days that it almost always: 'just works'. Is there an advantage to using the LiveCD as the base of the bootstrap? 3) Once, when I used a LiveCD (one of the original LiveCDs 2002-ish, I can't remember whose), all I did was copy it to the hard disk and then fiddle 'till it worked. I didn't then build a native LFS for it, but then it just ran the firewall - until last year! Where I think a LiveCD can be useful is to help find out the working baseline .config for the kernel, and maybe a starting position for xorg.conf, although that's less problematic these days. Of course if you've never run Linux before, and just have an Anti-trust (hint: starts with M) box, then the LiveCD would be a revelation. But, writing my memoirs, I recollect throwing all my Anti-trust stuff out after returning from a business trip to Redmond in 2001 - I remember showering a lot too. (unrestricted submarine warfare is not an acceptable business ethic) :-) R. LFS #207 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
