On 2/4/20 12:47 AM, Walter P. Little via lfs-dev wrote:
Hi All -
I recently volunteered to give a talk next month about LFS/BLFS to the
San Fernando Valley Linux User Group (Los Angeles) that one of my
employees organizes.
The main purpose of my talk will be to inspire people in the audience to
embark on their own LFS journey, as it is probably the *best* way to see
how all the pieces of a Linux machine are put together (certainly was
for me when I did my first LFS build in 2003, and has continued to be as
I build a new one roughly annually since).
I plan to outline the basic process at a high level using various
pre-staged VM snapshots to demo selected points of interest. The idea
being to go from zero to a functioning environment in about an hour...
so a *lot* of details will be omitted (therefore not cheating the
audience of the opportunity to learn on their own after the talk).
If I may ask a couple questions of this group:
1. What parts of the process are newcomers tending to get hung up on
that I should address specifically? (Host system requirements comes to
mind...)
It really depends on the individual. In some cases, users who have
insufficient Linux/Unix experience get hung up on relatively simple
things. Very experienced users sometime believe that they know better
than the book and sometimes things go wrong.
The most important attribute for first time users is attention to
detail. Read the text, not just the instructions.
Sometimes users get into the copy/paste sequence and stop reading. One
place is in Chapter 6 groff where we do:
PAGE=<paper_size> ./configure --prefix=/usr
without reading and substituting the proper value for <paper_size>. The
build will appear to complete, but later texinfo will fail and it's hard
to find the problem.
The first time build of the kernel is often a challenge.
2. Is there anything coming up on the horizon that you’d like me to mention?
LFS-9.1 is due out on March 1st. The current development version is
close to that, but there will be minor tweaks. First time users should
use the stable version of the book and not the development version.
-- Bruce
I am looking forward to promoting LFS and informing people about this
wonderful resource you all have worked so hard on all these years. I
don’t chime in on this list very often, but I’m extremely grateful for
how LFS continues to stay current/relevant while staying true to its
long standing mission of being an educational tool. That’s because of
the dedicated efforts of this group of editors and contributors, so
thanks for all you do!
Regards,
-wpl
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