Source Based Distro's

[Josh Johnson]

Comparing Gentoo and LFS: As far as I can tell they are pretty similar 
speed-wise. the best thing about installing LFS is what I learned from it. 
The order in which things needed to be installed, finding patches and 
fixes, etc. I did spend a lot of time however, just getting simple things 
to work. Like 3d Acceleration. and I still haven't gotten Java properly 
installed on it. I was on message boards and mailing lists alot. Gentoo 
and some of the other source-distros (i've only used Gentoo) is probably 
the closest you will get 
to rolling-your-own Linux without the grunt work of hunting down patches 
and security fixes.

-JoshJ
http://lotuseaters.no-ip.com

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, mihakriket Steffens wrote:

> Thank you all for the input. How does Gentoo compare to Linux From Scratch or 
> Sorcerer?
>
> Thank you,
> Harry
>
>
>> From: Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
>> To: nflug at nflug.org
>> Subject: Re: Source Based Distro's.
>> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >  What are some of the issues you face if you don't keep your Gentoo up to
>> >  date on a monthly basis?
>> > 
>> 
>> Occasionally the Gentoo team will reorganize packages (i.e. the name of it
>> changes) and that can sometimes cause what I'd call and "orphaned" package 
>> that
>> can be tricky to update/remove.  Usually they set things up so that if you
>> update fairly regularly this gets taken care of but if you don't stay up to
>> date for three months sometimes you can run into a little snag like this.
>> Gentoo provides tools to resolve issues like broken libraries caused by a
>> package update (or removal) this tool is called "revdep-rebuild" which
>> basically checks all system binaries to make sure that apps haven't been 
>> broken
>> due to a library update.   The gentoo forums have been excellent at helping 
>> me
>> find issues to any problems I've had..
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >  Dave Andruczyk wrote:
>> > 
>> > > --- mihakriket Steffens <mihakriket at msn.com> wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > > Hi All. I have tried many disto's and I keeping hearing alot about 
>> > > > the
>> > > > source based distro's. As far as getting better performance or 
>> installing
>> > > > only what you want. I have never tried but have seen articles on 
>> > > > these
>> > > > distro's. I was wondering if anybody can recommend a souce based 
>> distro?
>> > > > 
>> > > > Thank you,
>> > > > Harry
>> > > > 
>> > > > 
>> > > > 
>> > > 
>> > > Gentoo has worked very well for me.  Been using it for close to 3 years
>> >  now..
>> > > (The longest I've run ANY one linux distro before I got fed up with it 
>> and
>> > > switched).  My primary machine (down cause it's still in boxes) has 
>> never
>> >  been
>> > > reinstalled,  just kept up to date (weekly or so).
>> > > 
>> > > The initial installation took the longest of any distro, but I wouldn't
>> >  label
>> > > it as difficult. Just read the gentoo handbook and be prepared to get 
>> your
>> > > hands a little dirty.
>> > > 
>> > > Updating the system has been a breeze( "emerge sync; emerge world 
>> -uD"), and
>> > > I've only ran into minor issues (mainly due to me not reading the
>> >  documentation
>> > > nad doing something to mess up the system)  The gentoo forums are very 
>> good
>> >  for
>> > > solving the little issues that can creep up (esp if you fail to keep 
>> the
>> > > machine reasonable up to date. (at least do it monthly at the very 
>> least))
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > Dave J. Andruczyk
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
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>> 
>> Dave J. Andruczyk
>> 
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