On 5/29/07, Peter B. Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally put together another PC out of spare parts to use as a server; > up to this point my only linux box acted as server, game machine, > personal workstation, etc. and it drove my family crazy when I had to > reboot because I was experimenting. Now I can experiment on my own > computer while the server keeps working.
I also put together a PC out of spare parts and made it server. But i used my server to build my LFS. > <>> > Next weekend, I wipe out the ubuntu partitions and start fresh with LFS. > I learned my lesson. > > -- > Peter B. Steiger > Cheyenne, WY > I think it's good idea to switch. You can install only the things you want, and that makes it a) small, you don't install all kind of things you don't need.(except for dependencies) b) fast, everything that doesn't need to start speeds up your system. c) organized, everything is placed where you want it. My server, where LFS is running, is all of above. I have really much apps installed, because i'm working on it for a half year now and it's only 6.5G now, so it's still smaller than all distros i had installed and a lot smaller than windows Vista. When i start without graphical interface, then it takes only ~10-20 seconds to get to the login box. With X/KDE it takes ~30-40 seconds. it's only a 1Ghz server, i used some other distros which took me about 5 minutes to boot up. Organized is of course personal preference, but I made everything in /usr, and some apps have a directory in /usr, like kde-> /usr/kde-3.5.5. I've symlinked /usr/local to /usr, so that any files that would result in /usr/local are in /usr, and i've also symlinked /bin->/usr/bin, /etc->/usr/etc, /lib->/usr/lib, /sbin->/usr/sbin and /var->/usr/var That's the way i like it :) all apps in one central point. I made my own bootscripts, they are simple bash files, but they work like i want. Note that i only followed the LFS book, and that I only used parts of the BLFS book for complicated things. (But modified the commands to my own needs) Tijnema -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
