Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

[Peter Karlsson <petekarl@student.chalmers.se>]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote:

> I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at 
> supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, 
> in terms of when it releases updates, etc.

I find that hard to believe...

> Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support 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 comparison of the two?

The short version:

LFS is for those who wishes to learn how to build an operating system from 
scratch. Or for control-freaks (like me). Or a combination of both... :-)

Gentoo is a more practical version of LFS, where "practical" means less 
time-consuming, since you don't have to install each package (and it's 
dependencies) yourself and there are default settings/scripts that 
usually works ok with no/minor tweaking. Though you can install a package 
manager in LFS too (like rpm, apt, ports etc.).

HTH

Best regards

Peter K
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