I've been working on a new book: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/basic-blfs-book/
The intention is to be an intermediate book between LFS and BLFS that is much shorter and ease new users into BLFS and provide guidance into what packages are useful when initially building a system.
There are only six chapters in this book. I've spent some time trying to get the first two set up, but the others definitely need work.
What I've tried to do is pull packages directly from BLFS, but there is an XML problem when the BLFS page has internal cross references that are not in the new book. This shows up mostly, but not entirely in the optional dependencies sections. What I've done so far is either just commenting these references out or converting them to external references. I do not see this ever being merged back into the main book like we did for systemd.
One new approach I am making is to present both the System V and systemd sections on those few pages where there are differences. Users should be able to uses this book regardless of which version of LFS they started with.
I am requesting feedback. No comment is too trivial. Spelling, punctuation, grammar, word choice, missing concepts, presentation order, missing or too many packages, etc are all fair game.
I will note that the xml is a mess and needs to cleaned up, but right now I am considering this as a proof of concept.
If you want to build the book yourself, the instructions I recommend are: svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/branches/basic blfs-basic cd blfs-basic make The output by default goes to ~/public_html/basic-blfs-book/ All feedback is appreciated. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
