[CLUE-Talk] LFS and Slackware

[Daniel Chenoweth]

Thanks Brandon.  I will definately try Slackware (and LFS) soon.

Dan

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:55:26AM -0700, Brandon N wrote:
> LFS is great for one or two machines or if you want to learn a lot
> about Linux.  It's not practical for large enviroments however, unless
> you want to make your own packaging tool.  That's why I use slackware
> right now, it's very close to LFS but I get a simple packaging tool. 
> When I was building LFS I found it best to get the sources from the
> Slackware site, which is almost always up to date as long as it's
> stable (they don't use 2.4 kernels yet.)  In the same directory as the
> pristine source file slackware has a patch of any changes they made and
> a script of how they did the install.  No smoke and mirrors involved.
> 
> Brandon
> --- David Anselmi <anselmi at intradenver.net> wrote:
> > Since you mentioned it, I plan to install LFS next and build a
> > firewall with it.  Here's why:
> > 
> > Last year we had a server with SuSE 6.3 on it.  Needed to upgrade
> > Samba.  Oops, the version we need it only available as a source tar. 
> > Got the tar, ./configure, make, make install.  Doesn't work. 
> > Eventually found
> > and removed the SuSE version that was installed differently than make
> > install did.
> > 
> > When using other distros, I always feel unsettled that I don't really
> > know what's there and what isn't.  So I'm going to try to roll my own
> > and keep track of what I use.  Should be fun.
> > 
> > I've heard that LFS can be pretty difficult.  But I've yet to run
> > into something I couldn't compile and run on Linux - kernels, XFree,
> > others.  In fact, the only way I've ever had a successful X config
> > was building
> > XFree from scratch and using their config tool (sorry, can't keep
> > them straight so I don't remember which it was).
> > 
> > Not knocking distros, just don't think I need one.  Probably feel
> > different if I used one daily and was comfortable with how it worked.
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > Daniel Chenoweth wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone try out Mandrake 8 yet?
> > >
> > > I am currently using SuSE 7.1 on most of my boxes, and really like
> > it so far.  I also have a couple Mandrake 7.2 servers and 1 Debian
> > 2.2 box (I was a RedHat user since 1995, until I discovered Mandrake
> > & SuSE).
> > >
> > > Two more distros that I would really like to try (for learning more
> > about how things work):
> > > - Slackware
> > > - LFS (Linux From Scratch / http://www.linuxfromscratch.org)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any input on any of the above.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Daniel Chenoweth
> > > daniel at chenoweth.net
> > >
> > >  
> >
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Daniel Chenoweth
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