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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. The Way to Learn by fm6 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I've heard popular distros like Red Hat criticized because they do too much hand-holding. The theory is that you'll learn more about how Linux works if you use a less user-friendly distro, such as Slackware.

    But if you need handholding, you really need it. On the other hand, if you're comfortable with using Linux, but want to know more about how it's put together, even Slackware is too high-level. LFS, on the other hand, is the ultimate Linux-learners tool, because it doesn't automate anything.

  2. Re:This is only slightly off-topic but, by shoppa · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Three points:
    1. Cron is not essential.
    2. Cron has historically been a security risk. What's the patch level on Vixie-Cron? :-)
    3. Cron packages generally (there are exceptions) require a sendmail-like mail system for reporting results. Sendmail (and even its not so cumbersome clones) isn't generally necessary or even wanted.
    All that said, there's a wide choice of crons you can install, just see the BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch) hints.