On Sat, Oct 04, at 07:14 TheOldFellow wrote: > I still look at it every day. And will use it if I have anything > interesting to say. > > I wonder who is using LFS/BLFS these days. There is very little > activity on the -dev lists, although xorg-7.4 and gcc-4.3 seem to have > made things happen. >
I am using LFS from almost my first day in Linux (January of 2005), but I wouldn't recommended it for production environment. Debian or one of the bsd's (in my opinion) are proper solutions for production or RHEL if you have money to spare. > It would certainly encourage the devs if they knew that 300 people were > using it as their primary OS. I think development is an inner need, so contributions to this project are total independent from that number. > For me, I use Ubuntu for my desktop at the moment, but only as I don't > have the time to build a full GROAN (GNOME) desktop for LFS. However, > my gateway server that runs my LAMP webserver and XMail mailserver > together with the second firewall, is an LFS 6.3+ system. Everything > here in the house goes through that box, and it never, ever, goes down > (unless I want it to). As I said I am using LFS, although I've tried to go Arch for a week. I am very-very busy right now, so I don't have much time to maintain my desktops, so I thought I'll give Arch a chance. But guess, I couldn't do it (at least for now) so I work again with an old LFS system, with gcc-4.2.3 (oh well not so old) :). > > I'd like to know: > > how many systems run what version of LFS - today. > what for: production, research, education. > principle applications: webserver, desktop (which one), etc,etc. I am using to the production (my wife's job), much for own research and very much for education (for me and my kids), communication and of course entertainment. > R. Regards, Ag. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
