On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Baho Utot wrote: Hi Baho,
> I can wait to finish the base build of LFS-7.2 and get on to BLFS. This > distros of late are just terrible! By learning to build my own distro, I will soon discover (ok, "someday" discover) "what makes a great distro" (IMHO). :-) Regards Wally On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Baho Utot <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/24/2012 09:03 PM, Ken Moffat 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. > > I used fedora 17 to build LFS-6.8 to LFS-7.2, both i686 and x86_64. > I just use the kde spin variant. If I remember correctly all you need > to do is to add gcc. > > I can wait to finish the base build of LFS-7.2 and get on to BLFS. This > distros of late are just terrible! > > -- > 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
