LinuxFromScratch To Gentoo.

[junkstr]

I have used LFS ever since I started using Linux, but it got to the point where I had no longer been able to keep it up2date. Tired many distros starting from slackware -> ubuntu, but never enjoyed the binarys. I have used gentoo for about 6 months, and now I think I will never turn back because it has the options of LFS without the trouble. Just here to say hello because I think I found a new distro that I am certian I will stay with; Hello!

[poly_poly-man]

Hmm... not many people start with LFS

I was "linux noob" (using it as pretty much gui only, games, etc.) between when I was 4 or 5 (RH 3.0.3) until when I was... 11 or 12 and started actually understanding how it worked (read: did an LFS install). The farthest I've ever gotten on an LFS was all the way to KDE - no 3d or sound, tho...

The reason I like gentoo: it's LFS but easier and automated.

If you think you know everything about linux just from installing gentoo: you're wrong... first off, no one knows *everything* about linux (I mean, do you think Linus even has read all of glibc, not to mention all of his own kernel?), and gentoo hides you from the fun parts (understanding toolchains, building toolchains manually, how stuff gets put together, etc.)

@everyone: If you're serious about linux, do an LFS install.

poly-p man

[smurfer]

Hello (again)

I started with Redhat, forcing myself to just use the console because I really wanted to learn. When progressing, I finally found myself using fedora core 1 and recompiling every major package from source rpms to match my cpu/compiler flags, fighting with all those dependencies.
Then a friend of mine just said: "Erhmmm... Gentoo?!"

Bye, smurfer

[MalleRIM]

Hi,
I came from Ubuntu looking for new experiences
I think this is actually quite similiar to this topic: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-49 ... ight-.html

[i92guboj]

I have used LFS ever since I started using Linux, but it got to the point where I had no longer been able to keep it up2date. Tired many distros starting from slackware -> ubuntu, but never enjoyed the binarys. I have used gentoo for about 6 months, and now I think I will never turn back because it has the options of LFS without the trouble. Just here to say hello because I think I found a new distro that I am certian I will stay with; Hello!

As you say, if you started with LFS you will be (or already are) amazed how Gentoo is capable of the same things but without all the hassle, and on a structured and centralized way. 6 months is a small amount of time when you speak about a distro like Gentoo, but surely you already have an approximate view of the underlying potential.

LFS is good as a learning exercise, but other than that, is not practical for regular usage, unless you are using it to create the foundations for your own self-made distro, and even then, Gentoo has a better and more efficient way to handle that (deps, tested software and ebuilds, no way to mess up the things and a catalyst backend to ease all the process).

In any case, welcome, and I hope you stay around for a long time.