LFS: Any one used it?

Have any of you guys used LinuxFromScratch? it seems to be quite nice..
I was going to use gentoo but i had some problems..
I thought about redhat but well. no way.
Mandrake.. nice.. easy.. no.
SuSE... nerver tryed it.
Slackware.. never tryed it.
So have any of you tryed it?
LFS Site

Why not redhat? I have been using RedHat since version 5.0. I have not had a real problems with it and I really like up2date. Most everything can be installed from the beginning this saves you from compiling later on.

I am just curious why you said "No Way".

Red hat is just to clean.. and well a linux microsoft.
There just a big corp. I like the littler distros the ones that chalenge you and teach you.

I can understand that but in my situation I need ease and up2date. The least time I can spend on our servers is bliss. My machines never go down, and I never have to reboot. This makes it priceless for me in a business enviroment. For learning linux it clean and sweet. When I started back in v 5.0 it was not that way, and that is how I learned, the hard way like you want to. This I agree it is the best way

Cool.
I agree up2date is the best life/time savor in the world.. When i was running RH9 on my server i basicly fell in love with up2date it made it so easy so i had time to auctly work on my website.

drevele,

btw, I keep sending my questions to root@localhost and for some reason they keep returning to me

Not as much m$ as this: http://mslinux.org/

Thats Pretty Funny,

Thanks for the morning laugh.

One thing about RedHat, Unlike Microsoft, it is still FREE

LOL! Nice! thnx for the afternoon laf.

Better call redhat! ;)

Better call redhat! ;)[/quote]

I figured it out, the carburetor was stuck. A little oil and it is all better.

ohh yea thats what they told me to do if i cant send emails!

Wow, I can't wait to reserve my copy of MS Linux... I'll definately have to replace my copy of Lindows with it.

Right now I'm using Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my personal web server, Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop (as well as my mother's laptop) and Slackware 9.0 for the intranet server at work.

To be completely honest, The reason I chose Mandrake over Red Had was that my favorite color is blue, not red. I chose Slackware over Mandrake for the intranet server is that it has a Pentium II and Mandrake runs i586.

A friend of mine isn't too happy with the direction taken by Red Hat, however, with "breaking" the gcc libs. I'm not too clear on what's going on but it's my impression that they've done away with some global values which causes some compiles to fail, and then they redirect the "blame" saying it's errors in the programming, not the libs.

Though I use Mandrake, I still have some issues with it. Mandrake installed with APM support by default on my server, but I've not be able to get APM on the laptops (where it's needed!).

Between Mandrake 9 and 9.1, I still prefere 9. The only advantage I've seen of upgrading is that my wheel mouse works. I don't like the 9.1 installer nor the login manager.

PCMCIA support is still missing, too. Kernel modules exist, but I have them deactivated by default since they'll cause my system to hang at boot time.

(Hrm... enormous amounts of heat thrown off by the processor... only 2 hours of battery power... can't use wireless... why do I use Mandrake again? Oh, that's right. I like blue. lol)

I have looked at LFS, and I've been considering compiling my own source for my desktop computer; it runs on a 2.53GHz Pentium IV and 1G of Ram. It would be nice to have something to hold it together better than Windows XP...

I would suggest trying Slackware 9, though first... it's got a ncurses style installer, has a pretty decent selection of software on the install cd. Their default versions of bash and vi are less forgiving than Mandrake's. Just skip the X Desktop stuff and run everything from console.. this way you can have the nitty-gritty user experience, as well as a distro that still isn't too comercialized but large enough for a good support base when you need help.

But you might also want to try Core Linux... I've no experience with it but they are supposedly a bare-bones distro intended to be expanded by the end user. http://coredistro.sourceforge.net/

-Tim

Anonymous!? Gee... I thought I was logged in. Sorry about that!

-Tim