From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4QHL-0003gK-KM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:44:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ELgaWf006723; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:42:36 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7ELae80012090 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:36:41 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44F3128997 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:35:43 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:37:01 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? In-Reply-To: <200508141605.23088.menola@sbcglobal.net> References: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> <200508141605.23088.menola@sbcglobal.net> Message-Id: <20050815093622.EFBA.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7ELae80012090 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7ELgaX1006723 X-Archives-Salt: f2170b7c-64f3-4a76-8ada-0c286d33414b X-Archives-Hash: b1888ff1a0f36b45709cf982c162d79e On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500 Joe Menola wrote: > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly supp= ort > > the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have= any > > perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does > > anyone wish to share a=A0comparison of the two? >=20 > I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up pret= ty much=20 > equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands down. IMO Well given that LFS is nothing but documentation ( along howto), that doesn't leave much... >=20 > google>"gentoo"=3D3,990,000 hits > google>"lfs"=3D877,000 hits >=20 > -jm >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --=20 Nick Rout --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list