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On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Paul Hoy wrote |
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> This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants |
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> that share certain characteristics. |
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> I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good |
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> job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, |
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> such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, etc. |
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> Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly |
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> support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any |
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> one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point- |
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> of-view? Does anyone wish to share a comparison of the two? |
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Look at it this way, if you're competent to build Linux-From-Scratch, |
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you should have no problems whatsoever building from tarballs the few |
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packages you can't find in Gentoo, and putting them in /usr/local or |
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/opt. Heck, I was doing the... |
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./configure --with-various-options && make && make install |
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schtick back in my Redhat days. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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