LFS as main distro?

oneandoneis2 · 07-02-2004, 02:38 AM

Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering how many people stick with LFS(\BLFS\ALFS\etc) as their main Linux system, and how many stick with some other distro and only use LFS as an educational tool?

Andrew Benton · 07-02-2004, 04:41 AM

I try all the distro's and none of them work as well as Scratch. I install other distro's as an educational tool. I'm currently working on recompiling the FreeBSD kernel to get the Nvidia driver working. When I've had enough I reboot and go home to Scratch. They call it unstable but I think they're being sarcastic. It's more stable than all the other distro's because everything was compiled to work on this machine. I find it easier to get everything to work on Scratch because the documentation is so good. With other distro's the challenge is figuring out what they're doing. (The FreeBSD bootscripts are still a mystery to me :o) I suppose that people just go with what suits them. I've always liked building things. Bikes for instance. I start with the frame and build it piece by piece

Aiken · 07-02-2004, 06:40 PM

Started with LFS 4.0

For something to do I built my own package management system around that. It is what nearly all of my machines run now. x86 sparc and alpha. With lfs I have been a lot happier than with other distros I have tried.

320mb · 07-02-2004, 11:20 PM

I still have LFS 5.0 working ..............

<<<-- I call it Slackware~12.4

foo_bar_foo · 07-03-2004, 03:08 PM

Yes LFS only -- nothing else works near as well
but like someone else said you can learn stuff from the
prepackaged ones sometimes even they run soooooo slowwww.

qanopus · 07-04-2004, 04:02 PM

I to use LFS as my main linux installation. Infect, it's the only linux installation. I installed it using knoppix running from cd as the host system.

Kroenecker · 07-05-2004, 04:50 AM

LFS for me.

kevinalm · 07-05-2004, 07:03 PM

LFS 5.0/BLFS 5.0

LFS 5.1.1 /BLFS 5.1 under construction on spare partition.

I do also boot win 95 to run some games, but for most everything else lfs.

zz9pluralzalpha · 07-07-2004, 04:06 PM

I still have Debian installed but it's going the way of my Windows partition...

Not now, John! · 07-07-2004, 06:04 PM

LFS 5.1 is my one and only OS.
Before I went compiling Linux From Scratch I installed Slack 9.1.
I head no Unicode support (later I found it was only matter of one env variable), MySQL died every time it started, vi was running in old style, KDE had bug that crashed kcmshell every time I wanted to setup system clock, and there were some other issues I didn't like.
So, I decided to try LFS. It was hard and time consuming, but I learned lot, and I'm more then satisfied now.

slyman · 07-18-2004, 11:31 PM

Built LFS 5.5.1 a few weeks ago.

Now have my own custom LFS/BLFS - basically the most recent stable versions of everything with 2.6.7 and xorg with xfce/rox. Sort of in between stable and unstable/cvs with some added stuff.

Excellent stuff!

Next step... cross compile my LFS for my P166 laptop that I use as a router... It takes ~12hrs to build LFS on my Celeron 2K, so on the P166... 2 weeks?

iluvatar · 07-22-2004, 06:29 AM

yes, I used LFS 5.0 on my old laptop (took 12 hours to compile glibc alone...) and currently building LFS 5.1 for main usage on my new laptop! it's the smallest, fastest and most stable distro I've ever used

ps: does anyone know where I can get a howto on how to crosscompile for another system?

greetz,
.-=~ iluvatar ~=-.

slyman · 07-22-2004, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by iluvatar
ps: does anyone know where I can get a howto on how to crosscompile for another system?

http://www.au.linuxfromscratch.org/h...piling-x86.txt

This may be useful to:

http://www.au.linuxfromscratch.org/h...timization.txt

iluvatar · 07-23-2004, 02:52 AM

thanx! now I can start building LFS for the 386 / 486 oldies I still have around....

mdh · 07-23-2004, 03:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by iluvatar
ps: does anyone know where I can get a howto on how to crosscompile for another system?

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Theres a couple in LFS hints, but they could more properly be called "uname hacks" for fooling inmdividual
packages configury than real cross-compilation.

I've been working on building cross-toolchains for a while (hey, LFS ch5 is a cross-toolchain, just that host=target )

Got some incredibly convoluted build scripts (with no doco ;-) )
under my home directory if you are up for some interesting toolchain hackery.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ryan/scripts/cross-lfs

These are far more convoluted than the original plfs-scripts from which LFS 5.x was based so be warned...

Using these scripts I'm currently running a bi-arch x86_64 LFS6.x unstable cross-built from a
bi-arch cross-toolchain from i686-pc-linux-gnu, getting it built from sparc-sun-solaris2.9 from the scripts is
taking a bit more effort but it has been done by hand...

Regards
[R]