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Linux From Scratch 6.0 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rolling-your-own dept.

Bubblehead writes "The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.0. This major revision of the book includes a number of major package upgrades, including GCC 3.4.x, Linux kernel 2.6.8.1, and the Udev software package, allowing for dynamic creation of device nodes. The text has also been vastly re-written for improved readability."

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  1. Hmmm by Punboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wanna read Linux from Sniff tho.

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  2. Re:Unless youre making a tight embedded system.... by bersl2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some want the advantage of completely bootstrapping without the wussiness of Gentoo ebuilds (just kidding).

  3. Source by Punboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The text has also been vastly re-written for improved readability"

    Now if only they'd do that to the kernel source...

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  4. Re:Unless youre making a tight embedded system.... by M1FCJ · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't need to joke. Gentoo is far too easy to build and run.

  5. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    by yourself? *sigh*

  6. and for the impatient... by advocate_one · · Score: 3, Funny

    there's Gentoo!!!

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  7. Re:Unless youre making a tight embedded system.... by X-wes · · Score: 2, Funny
    and it's fun to boot.

    Only if you configured GRUB correctly...