Which one?

[Collins]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:09:04 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
<david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:25:39 -0600
> begin  Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> spewed forth:
> 
> > On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:12:29 -0700 Tom Condon <tomc at eskimo.com>
> > wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > 
> > > You left out the best learning tool (in my not so complete with
> > > it yet opinion) -- Linux From Scratch!
> > > 
> > 
> > Right on - the more the merrier.
> > 
> > BTW, have you successfully built a normal desktop setup on an LFS
> > base?  
> 
> Let's see, I have on my LFS system:

[ snipped ]

> 
> in fact, I think the list of what I _don't_ have would be shorter. 
> 
> For me, a _base_ system (which uses libpam BTW), includes cron,
> mail, etc., that LFS doesn't.  For me, LFS isn't even a base system.
> 

LFS was a useful learning experience, and for novice users the LFS
book is a useful repository of what's really in each of the basic
packages, but I found that gentoo would get me where I wanted to be
(and keep me there) a lot quicker.


-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla