Linked by Steve Mulder on Fri 31st Jan 2003 07:35 UTC
Why, you might ask, would anyone want to build their own operating system? It's really about being in control and knowing what's going on.In the next few paragraphs I'll explain what motivated me to take on this project, the recipe I used, and what I like about it.
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He was installing a Linux distro, not building an OS himself. It's still a Linux distro no matter if it takes 3 clicks or a week of hacking to get it working. This article, if edited a bit, would make a great LFS review though and I took it as such. Made me want to try out LFS myself.
My current Gentoo's nice but the latest RC2 is pretty damn buggy - I've had Portage fuck itself up twice in the last week leaving me no other option than to back up /etc and /home and to install it all over again. Yes, I did try using the Portage rescue system. And yes, I did report the bug in full detail, but it's just no good - it wont emerge half the ebuilds anymore. Gentoo simply hides too much from me and I dont like that. But it's been a growing experience allowing me to learn more about Linux, allowing me to explore and to evolve beyond using just Redhat. Because in the end, once we know exactly what we want, we're going to end up rolling our own systems from LFS anyway
Speaking of what I want, I'd like to see a rxvt fork with true xrender transparency. Anyone know any such projects?