[lfs-chat] best place to discuss which applications to use

Was wondering if there's an active forum someplace or a good place to discuss what basic applications one uses on their system and how one sets up their system. I'm looking into topics like which programs to use when I'm starting up my system (such as init, runit, etc.) and which utilities to

Re: [lfs-chat] LFS meets goals AND constraints?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I hadn't asked asked quite the right question ;/ A better question might have been What makes a minimal system? A definitive answer is unlikely. A comparison of packages that Debian labels as Essential /or required,

Re: [lfs-chat] A GNU distro

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Serge Hooge wrote: > Parabola and a few others already do this job, but another free distro > is never bad. I only have a problem with the name "GNU" (I am sure the > FSF won't let that sort of a deal happen). Parabola is a good example of a

Re: [lfs-chat] Program for creating music?

I have instructions on how to create Karaoke midi files using abcmidi and timidity++ at http://www.distasis.com/recipes/music.htm You can also use MilkyTracker if you want to create your own mod files. There are a couple of Open Source music mailing lists if you want to discuss music creation

[lfs-chat] modifying Open Source code

I know from previous posts to the list discussing a patch-free distro that some LFS members like to make no or minimal modifications to source. I was wondering if there's anyone on the list who enjoys modifying Open Source code and adding their own patches to projects. For me, the whole point of

Re: [lfs-chat] modifying Open Source code

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Jeremy Henty wrote: > I understand the desire for more control but I am surprised that it > led you to rewrite parts of GNU coreutils. What was your reason for > doing that? Probably for some of the same reasons Busybox, Toybox and

Re: [lfs-chat] modifying Open Source code

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > Latter years went on without me being a notable presence on the > Internet, until about a year ago when I got serious about implementing > an open-source computer. As in "hardware". > I think you've gone one step further

Re: [lfs-chat] modifying Open Source code

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:26 AM, Jeremy Henty wrote: > I have contributed many patches to the Dillo web browser project over > the years. I run Dillo locally with several extra patches, including > a proof of concept patch that adds a Dillo plugin that wraps a Lua >

[lfs-chat] Open Source license preferences

When I pick out which libraries or applications I want to build for my system, I tend to prefer permissive software licenses like MIT or BSD over more restrictive ones like GPL or Affero GPL. Some examples of programs/libraries with similar function that have more restrictive versus more

Re: [lfs-chat] Open Source license preferences

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Andy Bennett wrote: > It depends on what you want to do with it. Personally, I was looking at some of the older versions of programs that are now AGPL licensed and trying to compare pros and cons of using the latest version versus an older version pre-AGPL. The

Re: [lfs-chat] Shared & Static Libraries and Libtool Files

On 10/30/18, Hans Malissa wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. So is it generally a good practice to search for > any *.a and *.la files that might have gotten installed while building & > installing a package, and to delete them manually? It really depends on your goals. Some distributions

[lfs-chat] automating FLOSS software listings

Has anyone thought about auto-generating a list of the software that's installed on their LFS system in a format that's friendly to end users? We've extracted the Schoolforge FLOSS software list from a database to CSV format. The Schoolforge project currently has over 300 programs in the list.

[lfs-chat] need suggestions on UI design for Linux

Since this is the chat list, I thought I'd ask for some personal opinions and feedback on user interface design. I'm converting a Windows application that uses the Win32 API as a backend over to using a graphics library (SDL/OpenGL) so that it will work on Linux and Linux based systems (such as

[lfs-chat] libarchive and zstd

I was reading the Puppy Linux forum and one of the members mentioned an ArchLinux post ( https://www.archlinux.org/news/required-update-to-recent-libarchive/ ) about switching from xz to zstd. I checked my build of libarchive and didn't notice any support for zstd. I'm still looking through the

[lfs-chat] zip and unzip

Not sure if this should go to BLFS or this list, but I think it's a bit off-topic for BLFS, so I'll post here. I've been looking at the various patches available from different operating systems for Info-Zip's zip and unzip programs. I've also been looking at different build scripts including

Re: [lfs-chat] libarchive and zstd

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 10:34 PM Flareon Zulu wrote: > If you want to install the library then recompile libarchive, have fun, > and maybe tell us about it. > > If you're curious about the results, I tried building a compressed tar file package. gzip and bzip2 resulted in files with more than

Re: [lfs-chat] zip and unzip

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:55 PM Ken Moffat wrote: > > Only since earlier this month :) That's really interesting to find out. >For BLFS, and indeed any flavour of 'nix, I will be surprised if >many people use zip files for general purposes. I only use them as >source if that is all that I

[lfs-chat] Linux forensic tools

Anyone know any good Linux forensic tools for restoring files from a messed up Windows 10 hard drive. Tried ntfsfix on the drive, but no luck. I get the following error when I try to mount the NTFS drive in Linux: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error Failed to read vcn 0x0:

[lfs-chat] Software Freedom Day

This is not directly related to Linux from Scratch, but may be of interest to some list members. Feel free to pass this information on. Software Freedom Day ( https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ ) is in September. It's an opportunity to celebrate FLOSS software (like Linux). Check the SFD wiki

[lfs-chat] libvorbis

This is probably not the best LFS list to mention it on, but it's the only one I'm on at the moment and I wanted to share the information. I've been watching the e-mails on the libvorbis mailing list. They were discussing trying to get some fixes in for CVEs because Matlab is using libvorbis.