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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. Uh, yay? by SargeZT · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess this is kinda cool, but I hate source code, so I'll stick with RedHat for now.

    --
    And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
  2. another update dated today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.freebsd.org

  3. 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.

  4. Liar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Open Source programmers only use Best Practices like staying true to the language standard and using libraries that are guaranteed to be compatible with existing systems.

    They wouldn't ever use bugs in the GNU compiler to make their programs work. That's what Microsoft does.

  5. Re:Pointless? by brsmith4 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Reading an O'Reilly book or doing 'man ' is also a good way to learn about your linux system. I fail to see how compiling every single package from source is supposed to make you more 1337. All I can say is if you have time to compile LFS or Gentoo or anything else for that matter, you simply have too much time on your hands. Please, get a girlfriend, get a job, go to school.

    I suppose, since your compiled machine code will be optimized for your 2600+ athlon (definitely a big deal *cough*) and you get that .000000001 ms decrease in start-up time in Gaim, that it must all be worth the effort.

  6. 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. :)