Comments on: Pet Project

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:47:25 +0000

I ran a LFS 6.0 system for about a year or so. It took a little bit of work, but I could do ANYTHING I wanted to do on the system. In some cases I found it easier to work with than Fedora or Opensuse. LFS is a great project since it forces you to get your hands dirty. You’ll learn a great deal about Linux during the process.

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:18 +0000

@Alan,

I might just have to do that some time!

By: Alan Lord

Alan Lord — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:45:59 +0000

Hi Owen,

Thanks for commenting and hello.

PM for LFS has been discussed for many years but the recent debate on the lfs-dev mailing list basically concluded that LFS-ng should have one. If you have any ideas or suggestions to add to the pot, drop by the list (I use gmane for access: gmane.linux.lfs.devel) and say hi.

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:58:26 +0000

I have been wanting to do Linux from scratch for the longest time, I just have never had the time to dedicate to it. A couple of years ago me and a friend were talking about it and thought of starting a “Package Management From Scratch” Project. Where basically a package management system would be built and totally usable for people with multiple LFS installs. I wonder if it would catch on.

By: Alan Lord

Alan Lord — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:33:02 +0000

Hi BobCFC,

Thanks for your comments.

Using a VM is a good idea, although I’ve never tried building LFS in one myself. It is fairly straightforward to start and stop the LFS build process; there are only a few mount commands that need to be redone and a chroot if you are into chapter 6.

The LFS LiveCD is a good point. Thanks for mentioning that. In fact, it was a question regarding the purpose of the LiveCD, that was the originating point for the whole “lets refresh LFS” debate.

By: BobCFC

BobCFC — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:53:29 +0000

I’m having another go at LFS now that virtualisation is viable. I can have a project on the back burner in VirtualBox and literally pause it and continue from where I left off, which was one of the biggest hurdles for newbies in the old days, many of whom left their PCs on for days/weeks.

Also worth mentioning that there is a LFS LiveCD. It has all the source tarballs gathered on the bootable CD as well as a copy of the book, which is helpful because they say you must use the same file versions as the edition of the book you are reading to prevent conflicts.