On Feb 12, 2006, at 5:34 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
1) LFS/BLFS... is it just a "learning distro"... or is there a way
to use it
as a full-blown everyday distro? E. g. write a few scripts to
automate the
install process, which would result in something similar to Gentoo
Linux
(minus the "can't emerge" and similar hassle:oD)? I don't mind if
the install
process takes two days (to compile everything on an old Pentium
II), as long
as the result is rock-solid. I *think* so, but I'd rather ask
people who have
gotten more into it.
If you get the LFS livecd, you can look at the different ways to
automatically
install LFS. There is nALFS, jhalfs, and maybe more than that, but those
are the two that I remember are with the livecd that last time I used
it.
2) What's the release cycle of stable LFS/BLFS (roughly)? I'm rather
suspicious of bleeding edge (since I use GNU/Linux for everyday
work), but
I'd hate to wait for 3-4 years (like Debian stable).
Release cycle is really unknown. Whenever it is stable enough to
release.
For now, BLFS stable works well with LFS stable and BLFS-dev works
well with LFS-dev.
My (rough) idea for the future: put together two different versions
of LFS
according to my needs. One for server (without X), one for full-blown
desktop. That possible?
It's possible to create many different LFS builds. Even on the same
machine.
Use a different partition or different hard drives for each LFS
install. Put
each LFS build on a different machine. Good stuff.
Sincerely,
William
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