from Jerry McBride 25 Feb 2008: " On Monday 25 February 2008 10:37:13 am Jeremy Huntwork wrote: " > Hello Everyone, " > " > It has recently been suggested to me that the LFS LiveCD project be " > killed. The main arguments for this are, essentially: " > " > 1) It is currently unmaintained " > 2) It removes the essential prerequisite of being able to configure a " > Linux system " > 3) It leads to less testing from other hosts " > 4) A seeming lack of community interest in contributing. Especially, " > essential testing (and reports on the results of tests!) on varied " > hardware does not seem to be taking place " > " > As you may guess, I have mixed feelings about this. But after reflecting " > on it a bit, my hesitancy to agree comes mostly from personal attachment " > to the CD and perhaps not what is best for LFS. " > " > At this point I need community input. I realize that many of you may use " > and appreciate the CD, just as I do. But realistically, this project " > will die of its own if it does not get some help. And if that happens, " > then LFS would be better off removing the dead weight. " > " > I have some energy and some ideas to put back into the project, but only " > if I get some help with development and testing. I need to know two things: " > " > * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a " > couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is " > degrading the quality of LFS) " > " > * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in keeping it alive? " > " > If the answer to both questions is not a solid yes, I'm afraid that " > we'll have no choice but to kill the project. " > " > -- " > JH " " " This would be a bad move. Having a boot cd, that originated from the LFS " project is a BIG plus and give a lot of credence to LFS over all. " " Remembering that LFS is all about choice, I choose to keep the boot disk " around and would like, very much, to see it updated. " " As for being dead weight... not in the least.
+1 I would be willing to test the cd's when and as I could. R -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
