I did it once and would recommend it for the learning process. It is
a looong process though so allow yourself plenty of time! There's a
certain reward when you get to the point of booting up your new
partition and running on all your hand rolled software.
LFS is more than just a bunch of
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Robert Simpson codge...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you all for the input. I have never tried Gentoo but I have in the
past used Slackware and am familiar with compiling and dependency hell.
This project is strictly something to play with and I intend to try it on
I spent some time with Gentoo, too. Gentoo is similar to Linux from
Scratch, in that you have to build everything.
I spent more time, just trying to do the basic stuff on Gentoo, then I ever
spent with any other distro. Dozens and dozens and dozens of hours, just
trying to get a decent, working
If you are building out a Gentoo server, it takes me roughly 2 hours for a
complete LAMP w/rails server updated to the newest builds. I'd say gentoo
is wonderful for servers as i've built about 15 or so of them and they
barely need to be touched other than the occasional world update. I run
er, that last command should not be emerge -vuD world but emerge -vuD
gnome or kde or xfce
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.comwrote:
If you are building out a Gentoo server, it takes me roughly 2 hours for a
complete LAMP w/rails server updated to the newest
Thank you all for the input. I have never tried Gentoo but I have in the
past used Slackware and am familiar with compiling and dependency hell.
This project is strictly something to play with and I intend to try it on
one of my old Slackware boxes stashed in the attic. I currently use Ubuntu
