Hi All: Lupine's question about the newly released version of gnome led me to think about how lfs/blfs is used by the community.
As a side bar to all this compiling and debugging, I ask, "What do you use lfs/blfs for?". Also, where did you come from? I don't mean where on this planet, but I mean in the linux world. How much linux experience do you have? I'm curious about these questions as I have been here for a few months now and I can recognize who the movers and shakers are in the lfs/blfs world. But what about the rest of us? I'll start. I use lfs/blfs for development of my own projects. Right now I am working on a user-space app that reads the various data structures of a ext2 filesystem and dumps them back to stdout. Very similar to the functionality of dumpe2fs. It was this list that gave me the inspiration to tackle such a project when somebody asked (a while ago) how to recover their broken filesystem. My previous linux dist. was gentoo. The first time I used a linux system must have been about 10 years ago with a dist. named caldera. I remember when I put the boot disk in my computer it did not recognize my mouse or keyboard. We've come a long way since then:) I came to lfs because I needed to know more. lfs has been a "great" learning experience. Since my priority right now is development of my own apps., I crave a stable system. My base system is lfs 6.2 and app. environment is mostly blfs-dev mixed with my own additions. I use kdevelop as my IDE. This is my hobby. Not my job. At this point I will say thanks to the maintainers of the lfs/blfs books (you know who you are). Sometimes I feel guilty for not attempting to help you guys but my focus is on my own development projects. I would like to single out two contributors to the lfs/blfs community. Dan and Ken. I notice them often. They give very intelligent answers to the many, many questions asked. We are lucky to have access to such experienced users. Thanks, Shawn -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
