On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:16, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:46, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > My question was actually half serious. Having actually done it, do you > > think that a 'Linux from Scratch' evening, or Saturday activity, could be > > a worth-while event for the CLUG to put on? > > errr perhaps a little bit of a double up on gentoo? Not necessarily, perhaps one could think of it as looking at the same subject from a different point of view? While Gentoo is still basically a source distribution, installing it is now, in effect, a litany of incantations copied from it's Good Book. The only part which needs a modicum of nous is configuring the Kernel, and that can be done automatically by genkernel. There is still a typo or three to keep you on your toes, but fundamentally that's it. Apart from configuring the kernel Caleb ( 14 1/2 ) installed Gentoo perfectly.
> and watching a box compiling is a bit like paint drying really. Indeed. That's the moment we become social animals & depart for the local ... Basically I'm trying to come up with ideas which are a just tad more intellectually demanding than "You click the orange E with the envelope beside it to send an e-mail", yet at the same time don't require a PhD to understand the subject matter. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
