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Why not build your own Linux from scratch?

http://www.au.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/intro.shtml
(for some reason I filed this bookmark under "Australia")

Then to build X from scratch on top of your LFS - grab
the sources from:
http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.1.0/source/

Once you have that done - you could easily install GNOME -
just follow the instructions in the GNOME installation guide:
http://www.karubik.de/gig/

And there you have it .. a raw Linux/X/GNOME box -
no Debian, no Redhat, no Caldera, no SuSE, no Mandrake ..

Just a pure hotrod of a PC built from the ground up.

I must say I do like converting tarballs into RPMs - but that's
easy: "rpm -ta <tarball>"

RPMs makes configuration management a snap - even easier than on a
MS-Windows box.

It's Linux folks - have fun with it.

Darren
--No job is too small for dynamite.

And for those who want to spend the rest of their lives managing security
updates themselves go right ahead!

Quote:> And there you have it .. a raw Linux/X/GNOME box - no Debian, no Redhat,
> no Caldera, no SuSE, no Mandrake ..

No automated updates. No security updates. No database of programs that
can be searched to install (apt-get search). No database of what you have
installed at your fingertips (dpkg -l). A lack of really well designed
configuration and removal scripts that make installing and removing
packages a breeze (like most Debian packages). No easy way to
automatically download dependencies.

Quote:> Just a pure hotrod of a PC built from the ground up.

It would be a fun exercise. But not an efficient one for ongoing
administration of your PC.

Quote:> I must say I do like converting tarballs into RPMs - but that's easy:
> "rpm -ta <tarball>"

> RPMs makes configuration management a snap - even easier than on a
> MS-Windows box.

> It's Linux folks - have fun with it.

That's what you're describing, fun :-)

Regards,
Adam

Christine Abernathy

Terry's knowledge of Linux after 4 years is laughable

*>On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:36:57 GMT, Ed Allen in article

*>>    Try:
*>>       killall lyx
*>That worked :)
*>>    or
*>>       kill `pidof lyx`
*>That worked too :)
*>Whats more they both killed multiple instances of Lyx
*>>    The backticks execute the command inside and then return the
*>>    result as if you had typed the process ID numbers as
*>>    arguments to the 'kill' command.
*>>    These are both part of the psmisc package on <http://freshmeat.net>
*>>    and should be in almost every distro already.
*>Thanks again Ed, you're a damn handy Cola resource!
*>Tery
He can't even spell his own name!!

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Darren

 wrote
on Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:35:19 GMT

Quote:> Why not build your own Linux from scratch?

> http://www.au.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/intro.shtml
> (for some reason I filed this bookmark under "Australia")

Well, you are accessing an Aussie mirror, from the looks of it. :-)

Quote:

> Then to build X from scratch on top of your LFS - grab
> the sources from:
> http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.1.0/source/

> Once you have that done - you could easily install GNOME -
> just follow the instructions in the GNOME installation guide:
> http://www.karubik.de/gig/

Is there a KDE variant for this as well?  I'd hope so.

Quote:

> And there you have it .. a raw Linux/X/GNOME box -
> no Debian, no Redhat, no Caldera, no SuSE, no Mandrake ..

> Just a pure hotrod of a PC built from the ground up.

> I must say I do like converting tarballs into RPMs - but that's
> easy: "rpm -ta <tarball>"

> RPMs makes configuration management a snap - even easier than on a
> MS-Windows box.

I'm preferntial to .deb files, myself, although I've not yet
looked up how to make them myself. :-)

Quote:

> It's Linux folks - have fun with it.

I'll admit I'm contemplating setting up a basic Debian system
just to build LFS using it and then overwrite it completely. :-)
(It requires 2.4.16, as of book version 3.1.)

I should also point out that some of the stuff comes from CVS, for
those interested in near-bleeding-edge development. :-)  (I'm
not sure I'm quite that crazy -- yet.  But it's a nice option, for
those so inclined; I download WinE using CVS on occasion.)

But yeah, shades of the 50's.  Linux is making computing fun again. :-)

Quote:

> Darren
> --No job is too small for dynamite.

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