My understanding of Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) is that you get all of the fun of building your own distro, without a lot of the pain that Erik refers to, because they have done the interoperability stuff for you. You're at the razor's edge, but not quite bleeding. ;)
IIRC, Neale Ferguson used LFS procedures to build his 64-bit s390x starter system (so long ago, it seems!), but had a little more grief than usual because he was porting at the same time. Wish I had more time to look at this stuff... Cheers, Vic Cross ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Elmgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: Re: Suse for S/390 > On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 21:02, Gregg C Levine wrote: > > why not essentially make your distribution, > > based on what is available? > > Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and the scars. of course I *had* > to use unstable, little tested, development versions of everything! What > do you *think* happend when I uppgraded my C library with th 2.1.42 (or > was it .43) kernel *without* reading the warning... (major vfs changes, > very unstable) hahahaha... > > I kept it up for 2-3 years. > > If you do this it takes a lot of time, on the other hand you learn a > lot. however, if you are actually going to do this for a "real > production" system you should do "integration testing" which takes much > more time. > > So I reccomend that you only make your own distribution if no available > one fits your needs. > > Erik > > I haven't lost my mind - I've got it backed up on tape somewhere... > --- unknown >
