> William Immendorf wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Mike McCarty<[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> If the same versions are used as specifically mentioned in the 6.3 book, > >> they'll work today > >> just like they did when the book was "new". > > > That's WRONG!! They will not work with recent systems. Try it and see. > > What's wrong about it William? I'm still running some systems that date back > to > the 2.4.x kernel. They run fine. If someone wants to run a 6.3 version with > the 6.3 version of the packages and patches, it will build and run just fine. > It will be missing some bug fixes, but it may be OK for some scenarios. > > -- Bruce
Just to add some further weight to the argument put forward by Mike and Bruce: I'm still running what is basically an LFS-6.11 system, and on new hardware -- solid state and fanless. I've added recent versions of Firefox and Open Office in addition to a whole array of new packages both covered, and not covered, by the BLFS book. The system runs flawlessly; it is incredibly stable. A testament, I believe, to the excellent LFS/BLFS community. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
