On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:30:04PM -0600, Chuck Rhode wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote this on Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:03:16AM +0000. My > reply is below. > > > > For a desktop, 5.0 is so old it isn't funny. The issue exists for > > anybody using glibc < 2.3.6. > > Gosh, you talk like Bill Gates! > Ouch. Still, at least I'm only SPAM-LOW so far in your system. Seriously, I have something a little newer than 5.1 on one of my boxes (a few minor version upgrades, with recent 2.6 kernels and static devices). I had occasion to use that system a couple of weeks ago when the power supply in my server failed (my other boxes wanted dhcp). The versions were at-latest gnome-2.2 and kde-3.1.something. The browser pre-dated firefox. Ignoring the lack of support for many of the versions I had used, the user interface felt old and clunky.
If you can keep your applications up to date without rebuilding the underlying LFS, then good for you, and I'm sure it works ok. Maybe your systems were more advanced than mine, but I've only recently achieved as much functionality as I want on my desktops. The thing is, once you start building from source, you are responsible for your own upgrades and security fixes. With the recent speed of development in desktop applications, two years is a long time to go without rebuilding. I see you've upgraded applications, so why not refresh the whole system - I can guarantee there's a lot still to learn about how the system is put together. > Full disclosure: I do think the Ubuntu live CD is kind of > cute, and I am tempted to try installing that instead of LFS next time > if I can suppress my visceral abhorrence of packaged software. > I have every confidence that you'll learn to hate synaptic and the various 'verses, but it does form an adequate host system for LFS ;-) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
