On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 03:58:10PM +0000, Clive Cooper wrote: > > I guess everyone will have their own preference here but for me there > is no better Linux distro than ArchLinux. that statement is not > intended to start a flame war.
unlike the second line in your .sig, on an lfs list :) > I also strongly advise that you get more than just a few opinions > though. What works for one person does not necessarily work for > another. > So, here's my opinion - use whatever *recent* distro suits your hardware. With two provisos: (i.) if it's debian-derived, you will need to pay more attention to getting the system requirements (not just enough to compile things, but fixing awk and perhaps fixing /bin/sh) (ii.) if it's bleeding edge (perticularly the toolchain, i.e. binutils, gcc, glibc), you might have issues [ haven't seen any reported problems recently, but they could appear again in the future ]. And now, a few other comments - For the moment, we don't support initrd / initramfs. When you come to compile a kernel for your LFS system, you will need to build all the essentials into it (filesystems, disk drivers), not as modules. If you are able to try this on the host distro, for the same kernel version, that will be time well spent (IMHO) because it's much easier when you have a full system. OTOH, I don't suggest you should spend days learning how to alter any particular host system to let you do this. And as for which are easy / hard to do this on, I've no idea. Running in virtual machines brings its own set of problems, and generally they are specific to a particular vm. The big issue, for your initial host system, is that it supports what you want to do. On a laptop, that normally means s2ram or s2disk, and perhaps wireless. BLFS is heading towards some improved wireless apps, I think : Andy wants to add something, and I'll be merging in Wayne's gnome-3 work, including NetworkManager, one day [ still building and checking the "basic" packages, hopefully only another 20 or so before I can run some of it ]. But for suspend, I have no idea how it's done - all I know is that my netbook (running 'buntu - haven't had time to research this part) has working s2ram but needs rescuing if I accidentally use s2disk. There seem to still be competing implementations of suspend - on my old ppc ibook it used to be so easy (just use pbbuttonsd, and s2ram magically worked - provided you had an ati video chip). Others can no doubt offer very different opinions. 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
