does redhat have "make World" (ie, linux from scratch) ? yet?

X-LFS-2010 · 04-05-2016, 07:44 PM

hi

QUESTION:

freeBSD can build a minimal base from scratch (make World), LFS i think can, gentoo should (i'm really not sure)

does RedHat do that these days?

Any thoughts on Mint or ubuntu v. BSD v. redhat ? I'm thinking in terms of "its for home, i want full source for at least base, multimedia" ... but for "games dvr etc" i'll have a separate (iPad) so i'd rather have server+developer stuff than multimedia on unix.

Is anyone going to blow the RedHat horn and tell me: you dont know what your missing ?

thanks

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i haven't used redhat in a while*

a while back i switched to debian thinking dpkg was going to solve my compiling issues. not really (helped for bins at the time, for compiling not really)

i remember RPM is a source building tool and likely has matured since i ran redhat desktop (gnome 1.2 rocks!), but after that they started with their "small non-free download" and i havent tried since

wpeckham · 04-06-2016, 06:40 AM

Why would they?
What would be the business case that would cause RH to consider such a project? How would it benefit their target customer base or impact their bottom line?
Perhaps most important, just because this is RH we are discussing: how would RH presnting such a project/option benefit the world?

There would have to be either some benefit to them, benefit to the customers, or some reason fitting into their business plan to support such a project. For the general hobby base and non-customer users the existing project are doing quite well. I would not expect RH to get directly involved in such a project. (Though, I would not be at all surprised if some of them are not indirectly involved in some of those existing projects.)

chrism01 · 04-15-2016, 06:37 AM

I'm not clear on why you'd want to do this?

If you are OK to pay for support for updates+support, then go with RHEL, which by default just installs a working system.
You can get the src as well if you really want it, but it sounds as though you wouldn't in fact.

If you are ok to do your own support, then get Centos - a free rebuild of RHEL, inc updates but not formal support.

HTH