[wellylug] Redhat Stopping Redhat linux!?

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 16:48, Tony Booth wrote:
> As I understand it, Gentoo basically grew out of this effort:
> 
> http://www.au.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/news.html
> 
> It is even more of a "bare metal" distro than Gentoo -- no portage
> system, no packaging at all -- but also serves the function of making
> you intimately familiar with how the Linux kernel combined with all that
> other stuff to give you a working system.
> 
> I spent 3 days getting it to compile and boot on a P100 with 16MB RAM
> (glibc took 12 hours). Fun!  Super quick once it was all working too.
> 
Yeah, it boots in 12 seconds on my HP :)) - Until it broke down... :((

I'm planning to create LFS systems to replace RedHat 9, on my desktop,
and laptop.

Unfortunally, I need to wait until the xmass holidays, to get a time
when my laptop isn't in major use :(


--- Jethro

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