Watch out, potential BLFS editor coming through... (Once I get the time, anyway)
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. I am, as of right now, full time for LFS/BLFS. It's what I like to > do. However, I don't want to be the only contributer. Many, or at > least several pairs of eyes are better than just mine. I can also do work on BLFS too, just not full time, because of school and such, and not right now, as I am preoccupied with diagnosing my grandmom's computer... > 2. I want to create BLFS for LFS-7.0. At a minimum, the bootscripts > need to be updated, although most of the existing ones should work with > the (still included) bootscript functions. I think the same way too. I'll try to work out the bootscripts, specifically the networking-releated ones. > 3. I don't mind splitting up BLFS into a couple of books. Right now, > I'm leaning towards Volume I (no required X prereqs) and Volume II > (needs X). I also don't mind removing those packages that we think we > don't want to maintain. I wouldn't mind that either. I mean, from a VCS prespective, this is easier to do in SVN > 4. I have a fresh LFS-7 build on x86_64 and one on my P4 laptop. I was > going to validate on both. I will get a fresh LFS-7 build ASAP, just not right now. I am still interested in being a editor for BLFS. It's all I can do to keep this book from imploding upon itself. I just want to keep it alive and functioning, and I still have a dedication to the project. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- Are you a Gmail user? Please read this important notice: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/jstrap/gmail?31450. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
