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 1E4lJ6-0003TZ-68 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:11:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7FK8c9l000069; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:08:38 GMT Received: from anubis.medic.chalmers.se (anubis.medic.chalmers.se [129.16.30.218]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7FJxn5x021989 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:59:49 GMT X-Medic-Info: 40c6.4300f455.0 NeTsycxwwSXXa26a Received: from legolas.dd.chalmers.se (legolas.dd.chalmers.se [129.16.117.83]) by anubis.medic.chalmers.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7D54675 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:00:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:00:20 +0200 (MEST) From: Peter Karlsson X-X-Sender: petekarl@legolas.dd.chalmers.se To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? In-Reply-To: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <1123371608.32004.3.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> 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=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 0da9aa6e-d1e0-43fb-bfea-7bf972c59c8b X-Archives-Hash: 95105fbf2aa445b95780cbc7cda0846f 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list