above "was" a poll I put up asking the registered users at LQ.org if they agreed with the question above, but some moderator closed my poll stating I asked this question in Website Feedback, which is not the same thing. One question was for Jeremy alone as he is the Admin and the Poll is or was for the registered users.

Blea.

Apparently I guess the answer is LQ.org and the moderators here agree with the wrong term that LFS the steps by step document is a distro in some way.

Perhaps people should imagine it as it is.

WHO is distributing the finished product? Is LFS getting back the Linux CD's from the people and then redistributing them?

If that is true then it's a distribution.

If however these 'steps' are the same that everyone must use to make ANY distro that will be distributed, then it's a distro. If it's for personal use it's not a distribution no matter which way you look at it.

I give up though because I am perhaps illiterate and don't understand the English language as well as those that are protecting something that' so wrong, etc.

I guess it's ok to let people see that this site is kinda 'funky' with its understanding of "distribution" versus Betty Crocker Cookbook.

If you eat that cake and don't distribute it, it's just a cake and not a 'distribution item'..

Did you not read my response in why it was closed?

And if you buy a shell of a Ferrari and build on it. Does that make it a BMW?

No. It's still a Ferrari. So is LFS. Name it what ever you want. It's still LFS no matter what paper you wrap it in

I would like everyone to redirect to the thread starter's original thread discussing whether or not LFS is a distribution or not, since this is the 4th time he's started such topics and the reasons why each time he does start a new one, it will get closed:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=330173

To review:

Distribution means to supply something to others.

In the case of a Linux operating system, that would mean that LFS supplies all files including the Linux kernel in a kit that you copy somehow to the CD or DVD in question which would mean that LFS is a distributor of a bootable (we hope), Linux distribution.

If all you get is the same thing you get from The Linux Documentation Project, then all that LFS is supplying is the HOWTO and not the content required to have a Linux O/S.

All the tutorials in the Linux Tutorial section deserve to be made into pdf's, html tarballs and text files to be 'distributed' as downloadable items under the guise of the acronymn denoted for CD/DVD creation, ISO, and will subsequently be given their own forum because it's about Linux in the future. Is this an accurate summation of what LFS at LQ.org means?

What you get is a bunch of electronic paper from LinuxFromScratch.org and nothing that can be 'booted up' or 'run' like a RedHat or Debian or Ubuntu or Slackware or Mepis or Linspire operating system distribution.

No, because my question in this Feedback section was obviously for the only person that can do something about it and that's the Admin's here at LQ.org, not Moderators. Moderators can't change the whole site can they? Then my other question, which was clearly for Jeremy is for Jeremy and my poll, which wasn't posted in Website Feedback was for the non-administration, non-moderator people. It was for registered users to give their own personal opinion so LQ.org could get a better picture of how many people think whatever.

Perhaps I need to make the thread title clearer with say :

[Question for Admin's of LQ.org] My suggestion: Move LFS the ISO and Distro to Book Review.

Then you moderators won't get confused.

hrm.

This isn't the fourth time.

You have confused a question for registered users with one for the Admin's of LQ.org and now have besmirched my name here because you simply don't understand the difference.

My apologies for being vague by my posting of the threads in the correct forums and with the correct verbage.

Actually, if you have a thread closed for any reason, email the admin or a moderator, don't create another public thread. These types of things brought up we like to keep private.

And for the record, any post in the Website Suggestions and Feedback are not just for the Admin of the site, but for all to participate.

This thread is about why my poll was closed with an explanation of what the poll was for since you closed the poll and I couldn't respond to your post on the thread in question there it needed an explanation here.

But you do agree that ONLY the Admin of LQ.org can make a change, correct and no matter what ANYONE says on the thread one posts here in the Website Suggestions and Feedback forum, Moderators and registered users are just spectators and not actual players as only the Admin of a forum can edit the code for the forum website.

I of course was reading too much into "Website" part denoting it's for ADMIN only since Moderator does Forum and NOT website.

Thank you for your viewpoint and the instructions in case you can't understand and I need to go over your head and explain to the Admin what the Website Suggestion and Feedback section is because you told me something different that what it plainly implies.

I also note that the Moderator of this particular forum is the Admin. Coincidence?

Don't presume just cause we have Moderator as our titles doesn't mean we don't have more power than what most forum software's give by default.

What I am telling you though is to stop creating new threads on the same discussion you've already started. You've now started 4 threads to basically discuss the same thing, stop it or you will lose privileges to this site.

Regards.

Oh good grief.

t3gah, Why abuse the LQ forums? Trickykid is actually a very easygoing moderator so why are you going out of the way to antagonize him? Why are you trying to play semantics to get your rants posted to multiple forums?

If you don't like the way things are done here, you could always ask for a refund. Oh right, access to the site is free. Scratch that!

You got the first part wrong, but will give you credit for getting the second part right. If you have read any of jeremy's posting, you would understand that he does listen to the "Moderators and registered users" , and does act on some of the suggestions given.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you have done this to yourself with all of your rantings here lately.

I vote for kick him (t3gah). He is pushing it, and isn't it a rule not to talk badly about moderators or any other users on this forum.

Sorry mods, just couldn't help myself.