Hi, I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France), and a 100% GNU/Linux user since 2001. My Linux experience: began with Slackware (8.0 IIRC) on an old 486, moved on to a more performing PC and eventually to other distros (Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, Libranet, SUSE, ...) only to find out that my first experience seemed to appeal the most, and I eventually returned to Slackware about two years ago. True, I kept trying out other distros once in a while (Ubuntu, Aurox, ...) but I always came back to Slack.
More recently I've been fiddling with making my own Slackware package building scripts, and I found out that I missed some essential things in my OS and computer knowledge... which eventually led to LFS. I admit I had given LFS a shot already, but I guess it was rather early, too early, and I found it too hard. After all, I'm not a developer, only a (very) curious user. While I see all the trouble that friends around me run into with their various MS installs (viruses, crashes and so on), I really enjoy the freedom and the stability of my Linux install, and I guess it's worth putting the effort of learning into it. One question, just on the curious side: how did you schedule your LFS experience when you first gave it a try? Like ... a month without doing anything else, shut down in your cellar? Two hours a day over a year? The question may sound a bit silly, but I'm nevertheless curious. I *think* it's more like repairing that old motorcycle dating from the war that I found in the attic: don't rush this sort of thing, put one foot after another, and don't think about the end. Anyway, so much for introduction. Next post will be more technical. Cheers, Niki Kovacs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
