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LFS definitely provides an excellent learning opportunity to the beginner. However, I think, considering the clarity of the available documentation, there is li
by subhro 14y ago
LFS definitely provides an excellent learning opportunity to the beginner. However, I think, considering the clarity of the available documentation, there is little to "think".
Having said that, I have always considered LFS to be a kind of personal linux. For running on servers, I think Gentoo would be the closest to LFS and having well matured tools and package management.
- w0utert 14y agoGentoo is indeed a very nice option in between a bog-standard distro like Ubuntu and LFS. It's easy to customize and tinker with, but still usable on a day-to-day basis. If you want something in between Gentoo and LFS, you could consider OpenEmbedded, which is a distro builder primarily intended for specialized embedded/low-power hardware, but can easily be repurposed and extended to also build your own x86 desktop distro's, using one of the more generic profiles as a template. It would take a lot of tinkering and learning (but that's the point, right?), but once you have it working it's relatively easy to extend and maintain.
- alexchamberlain 14y agoArch Linux deserves a mention here. http://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.archlinux.org/
- kaolinite 14y agoAm I right in saying that Arch still doesn't have package signing by default? I know they've been working on adding it. Until it has that it can't really be used imo.
- alexchamberlain 14y agoYeah, that work has been completed.
- ocharles 14y agoIt has package signing. A quick Google search would have answered your question - http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/1446248/package-signing-comes-to-pacman-and-arch-linux http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/1446248/package-sig.... Voila!
- kaolinite 14y agoI know, however last I heard it wasn't enabled by default and many packages don't support it.
- cakeface 14y agoHere is a good post about Arch package signing from the lead pacman dev http://www.toofishes.net/blog/real-story-behind-arch-linux-package-signing/ http://www.toofishes.net/blog/real-story-behind-arch-linux-p... Also, I believe that "pacman" definitely wins the award for best package manager names.
- kaolinite 14y agoYeah, though as ocharles and alexchamberlain (and myself, actually) have mentioned, it has now been implemented as of January 2012. The issue now is that it doesn't seem to be enabled by default (afaik) and doesn't seem to work with all packages. As for pacman itself - I agree. Great name and one of the fastest package managers I've ever used.
- donniezazen 14y agoI ran Archlinux for over 6 months. Gentoo is more hacking. I am back to "bog-standard" distro Ubuntu because once you have learned basics you just need a complete user experience and stop wasting time on trivial things.
- darkstalker 14y agoI personally prefer an "user experience" tailored to my own needs instead of a set of defaults chosen by someone else. Specially when they push you into things like Unity and Pulseaudio.
- donniezazen 14y agoThere are a plenty of choice available when it comes to Linux. The problem is people expect some distribution to behave in certain way which of course doesn't happen as "user experience" is a design choice and not a technological fault.