Gentoo vs LFS: from which you learned more about linux?
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In building LFS, I found that it was too easy to get lulled into just being a typist and not really forcing myself to understand what I was being asked to do and why. That's not the fault of the LFS devs; it's the user's.
But this is true with learning nearly anything, especially with computers. You can blindly type in the commands and keystrokes somebody else dictates, or you can stop along the way and try to understand the way things work.
But this is true with learning nearly anything, especially with computers. You can blindly type in the commands and keystrokes somebody else dictates, or you can stop along the way and try to understand the way things work.
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Other things are package sources and handbook.frenkel wrote:How "small" is the cd then? Boot dir only contains a kernel.kohno wrote:How come the LFS livecd is so small? The only relevant stuff on the CD is the 'boot' directory, which is only 3MB, but when you boot into it, you'll have an XFCE with Firefox!
There is a hidden file called .root.sqfs (which is more than 200mb) on the CD.kohno wrote:How come the LFS livecd is so small? The only relevant stuff on the CD is the 'boot' directory, which is only 3MB, but when you boot into it, you'll have an XFCE with Firefox!
AMD Athlon XP 2600+; 512M RAM;
nVidia FX5700LE; Hitachi 120Gb
2.6.9-nitro4, reiser4, linux26-headers+nptl
Do I like to compile everything?
Positive definite!
nVidia FX5700LE; Hitachi 120Gb
2.6.9-nitro4, reiser4, linux26-headers+nptl
Do I like to compile everything?
Positive definite!
No wonder. Why do they want to hide things?Hauser wrote:There is a hidden file called .root.sqfs (which is more than 200mb) on the CD.kohno wrote:How come the LFS livecd is so small? The only relevant stuff on the CD is the 'boot' directory, which is only 3MB, but when you boot into it, you'll have an XFCE with Firefox!
LFS is redundant, just like the Gentoo Stage 1. As a project it is good but for actual use it not viable. People do it so they can say that they have just like those who had their specs in the forum signature with Stage 1 at the start. Those who i suggest do it would be the people that never had to do ./configure make make install
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