Speaking of Slackware

[Bob Hemus]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 07:27 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > Ben Duncan wrote:
> >> Naw ... I like to roll my own from the ground up ..
> > 
> > If you have time.. linuxfromscratch... I don't. :)
> > 
> 
> I think anyone who thinks it's easy to create a linux distro ought to go 
> check out linuxfromscratch.  Just for grins, I once downloaded and 
> printed out the manual (which was, in fact, quite good) with the thought 
> of doing just this.  But the manual just describing the assembly steps 
> and describing where one had to go to collect all of the various bits 
> and pieces of code was about 600 pages or so.  As you say, if you have 
> the time . . . . .
> 

You  could have formatted the text in size 6, that would have made the
manual a lot smaller. :)
Bob