Linux from Scratch

[Garry Turkington]

Hi,

I've built Gentoo several times which is a from-source distribution.  It's 
nice because you get all the benefits of a fully build-it-yourself system 
but things like the Gentoo install media and handbook remove the more 
gratuitous difficulties.

I personally learned a lot from the experience and would recommend it to 
anyone who wants to get a better understanding of just how a Linux 
distribution works 'under the hood'.  But since you have to do things like 
write your own grub.conf, fstab files and so on it's not for the faint of 
heart.

Gentoo nicely comes with Speakup pre-patched and I've had the latest 
2.6.12-gentoor6 kernel speaking on an AMd64 system.

Regards,
Garry

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Garry Turkington
garry.turkington at gmail.com

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, ace wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Has anyone here ever done a Linux from Scratch installation?
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
> If so, I would like to hear some feedback concerning this.  I wish to try it 
> but would like the opinions of other people.  Is it easy to patch Speakup 
> into such an installation?  I am guessing it is the same since one would be 
> required to compile the kernel.
>
> Thanks,
> Robby
>
>
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