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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote: |
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> I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at |
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> supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, |
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> in terms of when it releases updates, etc. |
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I find that hard to believe... |
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> Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the |
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> latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any |
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> perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does anyone |
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> wish to share a comparison of the two? |
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The short version: |
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LFS is for those who wishes to learn how to build an operating system from |
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scratch. Or for control-freaks (like me). Or a combination of both... :-) |
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Gentoo is a more practical version of LFS, where "practical" means less |
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time-consuming, since you don't have to install each package (and it's |
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dependencies) yourself and there are default settings/scripts that |
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usually works ok with no/minor tweaking. Though you can install a package |
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manager in LFS too (like rpm, apt, ports etc.). |
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HTH |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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