Hello all,

I have a triple boot system - Vista (which I never use), Ubuntu Hardy (always use) and Slackware 12.1 (not used in a long time and is mainly a backup OS). Was thinking of doing something with my Slackware 12.1 because its just sitting idle and so am I. Looked through the net for "Cool things to do in Linux" and didn't find the suggestions like setting up a music webserver or a home server very appealing. Would like something based more on compiling source code.

Was thinking of this:
Compile from scratch an entire desktop system - KDE with QT and all desktop effects.

Anyone know of anything people are doing related to compiling packages?

Thanks.

LFS or BLFS

Why don't you learn how to write SlackBuild scripts? Choose
some piece of software that you would like to see added to
slackware, learn how to compile it from source into a slackware
tgz (or txz) package, and finally write a SlackBuild script to
automate the process.

As mentioned LFS sounds like what you want, but this will still leave you idle. You'll learn a lot probably, but it's a lot of "./configure, make, make install, cp, rm, ls, mv" and waiting for things to finish building.

Thats a nice idea Berhanie. Will definitely look into that.

Thanks.