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LFS 4.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the for-the-adventurous dept.

Tekmage writes "For those of you who have never had the pleasure of rolling your own Linux install from scratch, take a moment to check out Version 4.0 of Linux From Scratch. Definitely for the techies amonst us, there is (IMHO) truly no better way out there to get down and dirty with the inner workings of our favorite OS." LFS organizes its documentation into "books"; 4.0's book is dated yesterday.

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  1. Why LFS indeed? by ageitgey · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sure people are going to reply saying that LFS is a niche product and not news that many people care about.

    Well, though most of you are probably exposed to Linux through the desktop, Linux is winning it's in-roads in the industry through embedded systems and handheld devices (not desktop). Functional LFS installs can be as little as 5 megs or so and completely customized. Perfect to compete with several-thousand-dollar offerings from MS, Palm, etc.

    So if embedded systems are driving commercial linux support, in a way LFS and systems like it are more important in the short term than Mandrake and SuSE.

    So why not write your local LFS contributer and say thanks?

    --
    Uninnovate - Only the finest in engineering.
  2. Re:Too many todo's by HIghoS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hey fear not. Getting KDE running on an LFS system is not *that* hard.

    There's a subproject of LFS, that isn't as well known as it should be, that's documenting the process of installing software after (or I should say 'beyond' :) the completion of the lfs-book.

    http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/

    In there, you will find all the information required to install the graphic libraries, X11, KDE, and so forth.

    You can also check out the lfs-hints for additional software/issues that are not covered by the blfs-book;

    http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints.shtml

    It's more about taking the time todo it ;-)