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    From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001.2989 to Richard Falken on Tue Aug 8 17:38:16 2023
    Hey Richard!

    My guess is people uses LFS as a learning experience

    I've learned much over the last 25 years (LFS) or so that I probably wouldn't know otherwise. Personally I wouldn't want it any other way which probably explains why I started with Slackware provided source and build scripts. They were amd continue to be the best even when they aren't. Though different LFS is reminisent of the original purpose of all that is Linuxie. I have never seen the same degree of openness from any BSD distribution.

    How do you manage software upgrades?

    As always, gcc and friends. Is there a better way?

    Life is good,
    Maurice

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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to paul lee on Mon Aug 28 23:02:48 2023
    Hello paul!

    06 Aug 2023 21:47, paul lee wrote to Maurice Kinal:

    Which kernel version?
    6.11!

    is it vissible in kernel.org ?

    if not its fake news :)


    Regards Benny

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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Benny Pedersen on Mon Aug 28 23:29:32 2023
    Hey Benny!

    is it vissible in kernel.org ?

    You already know that it isn't. 6.5 is the latest. I am guessing he meant 5.11 which appears to be the winner in the linux-5 universe.

    if not its fake news :)

    Only if it is fat, stupid and orange-coloured.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

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  • From Karel Kral@2:423/39 to All on Tue Aug 29 09:04:00 2023
    Hello Maurice!

    28 Aug 23 23:29, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:

    if not its fake news :)
    Only if it is fat, stupid and orange-coloured.

    May I ask for help? I had some lfs activity in the past (2002 +-) Recently I wanted to "do it again" - but have no luck. (googling still)

    I remember I just downloaded some package, configured (it was needed to have just some combination of screen and tcp client), built, it created content of "filesystem" which I put that to vmware - that it was.

    Do you happen to know some easy description/link where to read how I can use my previous approach? (maybe it was just I misbehaviour that time).

    Karel

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Karel Kral on Tue Aug 29 01:06:30 2023
    May I ask for help?

    Sure.

    I had some lfs activity in the past (2002 +-) Recently I wanted to "do it again" - but have no luck. (googling still)

    I just built a fresh lfs system, Node.js is building over there as we speak.

    I remember I just downloaded some package, configured (it was needed to have just some combination of screen and tcp client), built, it created content of "filesystem" which I put that to vmware - that it was.

    There must be many way to do it but I did it like this.

    I booted slackware live cd and followed the book to get linux installed.

    Do you happen to know some easy description/link where to read how I can use my previous approach? (maybe it was just I misbehaviour that time).

    You can read the linux from scratch book online, or download it and load it up in your favorite browser. You can also grab a .pdf if that works for you.

    https://linuxfromscratch.org

    Start with lfs (linux from scratch) and then once you have your computer booted you can move beyond that to blfs "beyond linux from scratch".

    If you try it, let us know how it goes.

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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Karel Kral on Tue Aug 29 19:04:49 2023
    Hey Karel!

    Do you happen to know some easy description/link where to read
    how I can use my previous approach?

    See https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ for a potential 'fix'. They claim it's abandonware but I am guessing it could lead you to where you wish to go with it. Also I believe slackware has some ideas worth exploring in terms of live
    CD/DVD/USB thingies.

    Myself I am waiting for a working aarch64 linux-6 kernel for an orange pi 5 so that can be liberated from the evil clutches of the Debian and/or Android crowd(s). I am hopeful it will be soon and I am sure lfs will be part and parcel of that much needed fix.

    If not I still have x86_64 to brag about. :-)

    (maybe it was just I misbehaviour that time).

    Much has changed since 2002. Alan's advice is well worth exploration.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

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