> Yes, Linux Mint 5 did pass all of the requirements of Chapter 4, and > the fact that I like Linux Mint , was what made it so appealing to me, > for this project..
Why? The only advantage Mint has over any other distro is its desktop. For building LFS that is irrelevant, even something of a disadvantage! All the instructions in the book are bash commands. At best you'll be working in a terminal emulator, where you'll have X, the desktop, and the emulator stealing processor power and adding a possible source of interference, contamination and confusion. The closer you can get to "bare iron" the better off you'll be, out of X and at the bash command line. That means no "cut and paste". As I wrote before, I recommend doing all that "in preparation", making bash scripts for each package. I spend *weeks* doing that for both LFS and BLFS before building any package, even laying down the root directory tree. (There are 418 scripts in my build directory for this system. (I put a sequence number in each name to keep it straight which one comes next.)) After all, once you build LFS, you'll want to boot it to build all the BLFS packages in your pure, clean, uncontaminated LFS, and it'll be a long time before you'll have X! It's like being a cook in a Chinese restaurant--they spend hours preparing ingredients, *before* they blast flame at a wok, heat oil, dump in ingredients and stir like mad, cooking each dish in just a minute or so. When I have to go back and startover, which STILL can happen, it's *WAY* faster than cut and paste, and provides perfect documentation how the system was built--both great advantages! If you "like" Mint for building LFS, you've already started on the wrong foot. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
