On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > Umm, why ? Seriously, most people came here after either starting > to loathe their current distro (can you say package management? :) > or else because they were using a distro and wanted to learn more.
> Conversely, debian and its > derivatives have a liking for old packages (e.g. mawk instead of > gawk) and will need some additions and changes - see William's > reply. > But in general, all you should need to do is to check the host > system requirements in the preface. The best host system is, of > course, the current version of LFS - but for most people that isn't > a practical option ;) Hi Ken, Thank you for the suggestions. I want the challenge to create a distro. It will give me a better idea of what's behind an OS. Sure I can just install Linux Mint, Ubuntu or whatever and call it a day. But I'm approaching it from a programmers perspective. Plus I would like to help a fellow distro builder with his new version and the way to get on their dev team is to understand what's behind a distro and what makes it tick. As you know, it's all self learning with online support and mailing lists such as this. What better way to learn than to build a LFS distro. That's all. If it takes me a year to complete (or more) so be it. :) Thanks for that Debian update. That was interesting. Yes I did read Williams reply. Thank you. Yes I did read the host requirements in the preface section but remember, I'm new to all this. I have no clue how to check a distro to see if it meets the requirements. I'm going to start from scratch. One step at a time. Learn all the lingo and build exercises and read the Essential Pre-Reading for Life with LFS (again and again). Thanks again Ken Wally On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:14:33PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: >> Hi Members, >> >> I hope to begin the journey of learning to build my own LFS distro and >> have been reading the Essential Pre-Reading Guide for Life with LFS >> (over and over) as well as the LFS book itself. I'm beginning to >> become familiar with all the terminology and would like some advice on >> choosing a host distro. This first step is daunting to say the least. >> > Umm, why ? Seriously, most people came here after either starting > to loathe their current distro (can you say package management? :) > or else because they were using a distro and wanted to learn more. > > In theory, any recent distro should do. At times, fedora has been > *too* new, or difficult (linker options, security features), but I > haven't seen any such reports recently. Conversely, debian and its > derivatives have a liking for old packages (e.g. mawk instead of > gawk) and will need some additions and changes - see William's > reply. > > But in general, all you should need to do is to check the host > system requirements in the preface. The best host system is, of > course, the current version of LFS - but for most people that isn't > a practical option ;) > > 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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
