On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:14:48AM +0100, TheOldFellow wrote: > > 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'm still using LFS, but my CLFS installs tend to get more use (one box is normally pure64 x86_64, except when I use it for testing LFS, second is variously LFS and multilib x86_64 (so, at the moment it has an _old_ multilib system, and two LFS-6.3 instances), one is a mac G5, and my laptop is a mac G4 although I now rarely rebuild it. My mac-mini G4 did have LFS on it (jh's version), but it appears to have died. My server (nfs for documents, notes, sources, photos; some audio; mailserver; ntp; backups with rsync / occasional writes to tape or DVD) is clfs pure64.
I'm hoping to get a fresh LFS install soon, but first I'm trying to put together an updated desktop, on pure64 but with gcc-4.2. The second box is currently mainly used for photo editing (LFS/BLFS-6.3 with a newer version of the gimp) - I guess all my serious photo editing is done on that box under LFS at the moment, mainly because it's the one with the usb cable plugged in to it ;-) > I think it might be good to have a revised LFS system register - the > current one, I'm #207 BTW, only records your first LFS build (2.4) - it > would be good to see who is using a current version, and what for. > I think I grabbed a silly number like 180, even though I only arrived in the run-up to LFS-3.0, but I'd forgotten about the register to tell the truth. > It would certainly encourage the devs if they knew that 300 people were > using it as their primary OS. > It would scare me to death ;-) People, when you build any of the "LFS family" of projects you become responsible for your own security fixes. We used to have a security list, but I think everyone got unsubscribed during the change to the current server. I assume everyone on -chat already knows they need to monitor vulnerabilities, and assess them (as in "Do ya feel lucky ?"). I've spent time this year on BLFS-6.3 and clfs-1.1. With my other (changed) interests, my non-participation in LFS would not have altered significantly, there isn't the time. What would help in general is if we had a development community - when people tell you they've been trying things, it's encouraging. Oh, I forgot to mention that my firewall is also running LFS, but that's a not-exactly-recent version. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
