Jon Herron wrote: > Members - > > I am relatively new to linux from scratch, and first wanted to thank all > those involved for a great experience. I have been looking for a starting > point for a deep dive into the inner workings of linux and this looks like a > great project. Upon browsing your site, I noticed a message at the bottom of > the ALFS section, talking about a new project called alfs - and to drop a > post to the list expressing interest (so here I am). After browsing through > this list I didn't notice any recent discussions on the topic, and was > wondering a) if this project was still open, b) if any work had been done on > it, and c) if I could either chip in on the existing project or start working > on said project if no work has begun to date. I'm not sure exactly what else > to say for an opening post, but hopefully this could get some conversations > going... >
Hi Jon, The endeavor to build 'alfs' (a do-it-all replacement for what was at the time the default implementation, nALFS) was started a few years back. There were a couple of Proof of Concepts developed to show certain possible functionality, but it never really went further than that. Mostly due to a lack of resources, but also because the community couldn't agree on a precise direction to follow, any community-based organized effort to produce alfs was dropped. Instead, a small bash Proof of Concept called jhalfs was adopted and re-written by the community at large. jhalfs is still useful to many, mostly because it extracts its build instructions directly from the LFS book's XML source. But I think it would be nice if there were other ALFS implementations. If you wanted to start work on something that could become alfs, I'd say go ahead and draw up a new draft of proposed features/functionality and let us have a look. We created a functional requirements page a while ago, but I'd imagine that several of those things could be modified or removed now. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
