On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote: > Apollia wrote: >> I've also increasingly been considering trying to build my own Linux from >> scratch, probably using this website as a guide: >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ > > There are more automated ways to do this: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/ > > You may be interested to know that Gobo Linux is based on ALFS. > > -- > Joel Roth
Cool, thanks for introducing me to this stuff. :-D I'm delighted by Gobo Linux's novel approach to organizing the standard Linux directory structure! http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance I've always been bothered by how confusing and disorganized Linux's standard directory structure seems, and wished I had way to stop packages from scattering their contents everywhere, and instead put everything together in one place. But, I never tried to fix that myself, since I assumed it was probably an unfixable problem (with any solution maybe being more likely to cause worse problems than the problem of all the confusing disorganization), because every Linux I ever tried did things the usual way. The closest thing to an improvement I previously knew of was Puppy Linux's layered filesystem (described here: http://puppylinux.com/development/howpuppyworks.html ) and SFS (SquashFS) files. One reason SFS files appeal to me is because, in Puppy, using a Bash script named "sfs_load", you can install and uninstall a lot of files in seconds just by mounting or unmounting an SFS file, with (I believe) less risk of overwriting existing files than using a Puppy .pet file to install things. (There are glitches at times - http://astroblahhh.com/puppy-linux/Some_Puppy_Linux_Basics.shtml#sfs-related-glitches-ive-encountered - but I'm sure those could be fixed somehow.) Overall, using SFS files seems to me to be tidier, more organized and well-contained than just installing things directly to the main layer. But, since I don't know of a way to view only certain layers instead of all the layers combined, even Puppy's SFS files add to my unpleasant perception of clutter everywhere. http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=documentation The Compile, ChrootCompile, and Recipes parts of Gobo Linux also catch my eye. Those might rescue me from trying to reinvent some wheels. :-) I was just recently thinking (and even blogging) about how it would probably be better in general if people were less dependent on repositories of precompiled software, and had more automated tools to assist them in downloading and compiling software packages themselves. I look forward to trying Gobo Linux at some point and seeing if it works as well as I hope. :-) Wonder if any of its features might be good in Devuan, too? I'll also try ALFS eventually. Thanks again. :-) Best wishes, Apollia _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
