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'll add my tuppence worth. > 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. Gosh, I'm #216, does that make me nearly as old too? > 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). > > 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 still run LFS on my home server - it was built about a year ago and only reboots when I want it too. It's a low power VIA jobby and the thought of wasting precious CPU cycles with the "extras" that the mainstream distros include made me shudder. If anyone is interested in the story I did blog about some time ago. Here's the link to part 1: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/09/08/untangle-asterisk-pbx-and-file-server-all-in-one/. It does: Web server (for development mainly), Calendar server (Cosmo/Tomcat), Samba local home file server, Asterisk PBX and it has an x100p PSTN card too, it also runs X and various apps so I can use them over X from my desktop for development - like Bluefish for example. For my desktop/laptop(s) however I run Ubuntu. It was just too much maintenance to keep up-to-date, and adding/removing apps is so fast with 'apt-get install foo'. Cheers Al -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
