On Aug 14, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Joe Menola wrote:
On Sunday August 14 2005 5:43 pm, Paul Hoy wrote:
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Joe Menola wrote:
On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote:
Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly
support
the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one
have any
perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view?
Does
anyone wish to share a comparison of the two?
I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up
pretty much
equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands down. IMO
google>"gentoo"=3,990,000 hits
google>"lfs"=877,000 hits
-jm
Hi Joe,
What about the LFS community - did you find it helpful?
Of course, the answer is probably objective. Developer types may not
have to rely so much on community whereas those who have the great
capacity to take forever to understand the point, like myself,
require a good community.
Also, I agree with you that the Gentoo documentation (most of it) is
excellent; I've printed, and have read most of it.
One more question, and it's the most obvious. You said that Gentoo
and LFS are more or less equal. So, that begs the question: what
persuaded you to stick with Gentoo?
Thanks ,
Paul
The LFs community was very helpful, I couldn't have built a working
system
without them. :)
I just find it easier when Goggle finds other documented problems
that match
mine. The size of the Gentoo user base makes this much more likely
with
Gentoo vs LFS.
To answer the obvious...Gentoo is easier to build then LFS. LFS's
style of
package by package installing is great for learning the workings of
Linux,
and I wouldn't trade-in my experience with LFS for anything.
Yes, that's what attracted me to Gentoo and to LFS/BLFS also: I'm
interested in learning the inner workings of Linux. I've hacked
around with Linux since the very early days of Redhat, but I still
don't have a comprehensive understanding of the OS. This is despite
that fact that I usually used tarballs rather than RPMs, even in
Redhat and Fedora.
But starting from scratch with LFS and obtaining a working Kde
desktop took me (from
memory) a few weeks to build. With Gentoo, I was there in a few
days thanks
to "emerge kde-meta".
Yeah, there were even some pre-compiled Linux distros in which it
took a long time to get a Gnome desktop (vlos and foresight linux,
for instance). Like you, it took me a few days to get a working Gnome
desktop with Gentoo.
-jm
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Thanks, Joe. This is the kind of conversation I was looking for.
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