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Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

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Linux From Scratch Opinions

I was wondering how many of you have built a Linux From Scratch system, and what you thought of it?

Did you learn a lot from building such a system? Would you advise doing it, just as a learning experience?

How easily maintainable was the system once built?

How long a process was building the system to a usable state?

Your thoughts.

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Dusty

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Re: Linux From Scratch Opinions

I learned more from Arch than Idid from LS, to be honest. LFS is great, but its hard to keep packages up to date. I'd say do it once for the experience, but don't keep it.

Dusty

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dtw

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Registered: 2004-08-03

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Re: Linux From Scratch Opinions

I did it from till you had the basic system - so I did the bootstrap and stuff - helps you learn what that stuff is for

jondkent

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From: London

Registered: 2005-09-13

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Re: Linux From Scratch Opinions

I'd agree with everyone else here, its a good learning tool and worth doing as you do gain a more indepth understanding

mmccaskill

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Registered: 2005-02-21

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Re: Linux From Scratch Opinions

The only thing about gentoo I liked was the stage 1 bootstrap. While not really the same as LFS since gentoo uses a script I still learned a good deal.

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

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Re: Linux From Scratch Opinions

kinda did this back when is started to work on the PPC port of Arch.
personally i've never even read the LFS book, learned it all from Arch since it was so easy to understand, even by simply reading the initscripts stuff.

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