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Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by nitrogen »

thmzlt wrote: post #31
arafalov wrote: post #29

Looks interesting if niche. Somebody should take all the documentation and create gamification experience around it. With levels and all. Maybe even as a submission to the currently running Gamification Coursera class.... I can just imagine: Level one: you managed to download all sources. All the way to "You are the master, you can now serve your own ??? (ruby on rails app?) from your own server". Then build a commun…

Does anyone older than 14 really care about that?

Never underestimate the effect a few tweaks to the ancient parts of your brain can have. As one anecdote, I was quite surprised how much of a difference was made in my motivation by coloring my passing/failing test cases green/red using ANSI escape sequences.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by cientifico »

I do it a few years ago (when compiling all of this take 1 day per step). I totally recomend it. It give you the background needed to understand an operate system, unix, kernel, modules/drivers, stdlib, et cetera...

You should do it.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by kaolinite »

ocharles wrote: post #23
kaolinite wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I right in saying that Arch still doesn't have package signing by default? I know they've been working on adding it. Until it has that it can't really be used imo.

It has package signing. A quick Google search would have answered your question - http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/1446248/package-sig... . Voila!

I know, however last I heard it wasn't enabled by default and many packages don't support it.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by Howitzer »

thmzlt wrote: post #31
arafalov wrote: post #29

Looks interesting if niche. Somebody should take all the documentation and create gamification experience around it. With levels and all. Maybe even as a submission to the currently running Gamification Coursera class.... I can just imagine: Level one: you managed to download all sources. All the way to "You are the master, you can now serve your own ??? (ruby on rails app?) from your own server". Then build a commun…

Does anyone older than 14 really care about that?

It sets goals very clearly outside of 'I need a working system'.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by 4abhishekpathak »

thmzlt wrote: post #31
arafalov wrote: post #29

Looks interesting if niche. Somebody should take all the documentation and create gamification experience around it. With levels and all. Maybe even as a submission to the currently running Gamification Coursera class.... I can just imagine: Level one: you managed to download all sources. All the way to "You are the master, you can now serve your own ??? (ruby on rails app?) from your own server". Then build a commun…

Does anyone older than 14 really care about that?

its not really that trivial.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by ta12121 »

octotoad wrote: post #7

Hate to post a comment just to be negative, but, I seriously can't believe this has appeared on the front page of a site like HN. "Welcome to"?. LFS is so old that I would assume any self proclaimed geek/hacker would've already been aware of it. It has existed for over ten years.

There's a tendency here (and yes, reddit) of people submitting, and others upvoting, a random well known thing that happens to be significant in the real world, but with zero actual novelty. The Stallman interview from the 80s that was posted recently comes to mind.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by cakeface »

kaolinite wrote: post #20
alexchamberlain wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arch Linux deserves a mention here. http://www.archlinux.org/

Am I right in saying that Arch still doesn't have package signing by default? I know they've been working on adding it. Until it has that it can't really be used imo.

Here is a good post about Arch package signing from the lead pacman dev http://www.toofishes.net/blog/real-story-behind-arch-linux-p...

Also, I believe that "pacman" definitely wins the award for best package manager names.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by debacle »

esolyt wrote: post #48

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171448 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159909 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3677350 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779665 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2336657

Due to the highly temporal nature of HN, I don't think reposts should be punished, especially if the repost window is a year.

I'm not sure if that's what you're trying to do, or if you're just trying to link to the old threads. If the latter, please carry on.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by fusiongyro »

albertzeyer wrote: post #21

To those who haven't heard about LFS before: You really should also check out Gentoo which is basically the same thing but more elegant and easier. :)

Right, but the point of LFS is to learn how Linux works, not how Gentoo happens to have set things up.
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