On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If someone who had just encountered a PC 2 weeks ago stumbled onto LFS, > > managed to work their way through it and came out the other end > > successful, I'd applaud them! Sure, they wouldn't have approached LFS > > Maybe it wasn't meant entirely serious but there have been a few people > over the years whose very first experience with Linux was LFS. They went > straight from Windows to LFS. Before the LiveCD even existed. Speak of a > learning curve but they persevered through the curve and came out > knowing a lot more about Linux in general than many other LFS users. > Then those people contributed back to the LFS project in useful ways. > > You never want to limit the audience. You may miss out on progress. > > True, LFS isn't targeted to those people, but if they choose to try > anyways, let's help them out as best as we can. > > Gerard > --
LFS was my upbringing, but I was more of a dos user then a windows user at the time. (LFS 3.2 days, if I recall). Someone let me use a linux shell account for a while, and wanted to use bash again. mandrake, I managed to install it, but never did find a commandline, tried slackware next, but there was more software then I could sort out at the time. LFS was a good system for me to start with, as it had limited software and I had to add on what I wanted. The slackware book had some basic commandline documentation. I don't think I was all that unique, and I hope others have found it just as enlightening. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ nathan at linuxfromscratch org conathan at gmail com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
