Instead of just reading the conversation, I'd like to add to it. These ramblings are from someone who's linux lineage looks like this:
Mandrake --> Suse --> Gentoo --> LFS --> Ubuntu That spans a mere 5 years. Of those distributions, Gentoo and LFS were the most instrumental in shining light into the dark corners of the OS. And of those two, LFS was the MosT educational by far. That was in fact the reason I spent 6 months on it. Specific thoughts: Although I managed to build LFS/CLFS with other distributions, I always preferred the LFS LiveCD. It seems in the previous LiveCD topic that the general opinion is that the LiveCD should be built strictly per the LFS manual. I do not understand how this is possible, as there is a difference between an OS running from harddisk and one running from LiveCD or LiveUSB. My preference would be LiveUSB, as I don't have to throw away so many CDs. Just my two cents on that topic. The only thing keeping me from using LFS/CLFS as fulltime/all-the-time learning distribution is that it has not adopted a package management system whether simple or complex. And what I am personally keenly interested in, is how you build a distribution from scratch while integrating a package management system. Other magic that occurs which I would like to understand is how 'we' develop/identify the patches which the normal user such as myself applies blindly. I am specifically curious about this process. Lastly, I express thanks to those running the main and subprojects and all the other 'invisible' folks that toil away on their labor of love. Your work has been instrumental in helping me learn how an OS is put together from pieces. Best regards, Harvey -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
