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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. That's why I use FreeBSD by johnkp · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you're like me you like to have everything compiled from scratch. Thats why I tried LFS some months ago, but found it at that the time it took to make a basic setup was awful long. Then I switched to gentoo but I disliked their portage system, but finally I setteled with FreeBSD. Compiling everything from scratch is as easy as:
    cvsup stable-supfile
    cd /usr/src
    make world && make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL && make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL

    and ports+portupgrade is just great.

  2. Re:Uh by Vinum · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its people like you who keep the gene pool healthy. Thanks for being a geek and not breeding. :)