I am running LFS at home. I pulled it together while running Mandrake. The LFS instructions are great, but stop once you get the kernel, libraries and basic utilities set up. There are plans to extend LFS(Beyond LFS). After gettnig basic LFS running, I got apps which would allow me to be functional in text mode: lynx for browsing, mutt for e-mail, ftp, telnet, ssh, cdplayer...etc Then I got X working, using ICEWM for the window manager. Then I started pulling down all the GNOME libraries off www.gnome.org. GNOME was the most difficult to get working. I compiled all their major apps, calendar, address book, email(balsa), spreadsheet(gnumeric). For web browsing, nothing beats Mozilla. I downloaded this and compiled it from source. I also got OpenOffice working from the binaries. My brother saw my LFS box the other day and commented that it could do everything a M$Win desktop could do with .xls, .doc, and .ppt files. My wife can use the LFS box for e-mail, surfing, balancing the checkbook and writing letters. I went with LFS because besides being interested in Linux, I am very interested in open source software(OSS). To get the most out of OSS, you have to be able to compile the newet sources from scratch. Almost all distros are 6 months behind the latest OSS on the internet, and sometimes have no plan on catching up. Sometimes, so many libraries must be upgraded to get the latest OSS to work that it totally breaks a pre-packaged distro. Doing LFS gives you freedom but takes time. I put in about 2 weeks of work to get my LFS box where it is today, and I have been using Linux since 1992. If you get stuck with something, let me know. fred Lorry <alcyone at slava.net> Sent by: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org 05/26/02 09:11 PM Please respond to tclug-list To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org cc: Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Looking for the right distro You need another linux distro because it resolves circular dependencies. Unless your windows has bash and gcc, you need a linux distro. :) I'm doing a Linux From Scratch as we speak, so if you don't mind waiting I can let you know how it goes. I'd probably recommend installing Slack or Debian and tinkering with it for a bit before doing LFS, if you aren't used to UNIX commands. The LFS documentation appears to be really great, but if you don't know what cd and ln do, it might be a little confusing. If you do know UNIX commands, go ahead and dive in. :) Lorry What a fine Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:08:14PM -0700 it was when Matt Waters said: > Does anyone know if LinuxFromScratch can be done using windows as opposed to building it on an already functional Linux system? _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020528/da91cfda/attachment.html