On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote:
I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at
supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora,
in terms of when it releases updates, etc.
I find that hard to believe...
Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the
latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any
perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does anyone
wish to share a comparison of the two?
The short version:
LFS is for those who wishes to learn how to build an operating system from
scratch. Or for control-freaks (like me). Or a combination of both... :-)
Gentoo is a more practical version of LFS, where "practical" means less
time-consuming, since you don't have to install each package (and it's
dependencies) yourself and there are default settings/scripts that
usually works ok with no/minor tweaking. Though you can install a package
manager in LFS too (like rpm, apt, ports etc.).
HTH
Best regards
Peter K
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