Re: Format for the future LFS

2008-03-05 Thread George Makrydakis
nd the pedantic route, then this is an overkill. If you don't, then it is a viable alternative with even bigger long term potential than what it seems right now. > -- > Alexander E. Patrakov George Makrydakis -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-03 Thread George Makrydakis
On Monday 03 March 2008 22:00:39 George Makrydakis wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2008 20:57:48 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > [snip] > It's irrelevant to what I was saying, yes. I wasn't saying "we should > let users read from any OS/browser/whatever" on its own. I wa

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-03 Thread George Makrydakis
On Monday 03 March 2008 20:57:48 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:07:38PM +0200, George Makrydakis wrote: > > Cross platform code runs everywhere. > > Um, yeah (at least in theory), but does that actually help? See the > > question below that you didn

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-03 Thread George Makrydakis
On Monday 03 March 2008 16:07:38 George Makrydakis wrote: > Writing the same in C++ uses 10% of these features if not less and its power shines when you do not use it as a C superset. to : Writing the same in C++ uses 10% of the LANGUAGE FEATURES if not less and its power shines when you

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-03 Thread George Makrydakis
On Monday 03 March 2008 05:03:56 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > George Makrydakis wrote: > > First of all, Joe Sixpack is David's term. > > Yeah, I know that... > > > Second, I did not use Windows before Linux :) > > I'm not talking about you. I do know that, b

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-02 Thread George Makrydakis
On Sunday 02 March 2008 21:33:42 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > I think it's a really bad idea for us to specifically try to teach > anything to Joe Sixpack that's never even used Linux. Note I'm not > saying that everyone who uses LFS had used Linux before they started -- > but those that didn't are mos

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-02 Thread George Makrydakis
On Sunday 02 March 2008 02:02:23 David Jensen wrote: > George Makrydakis wrote: > > You know what? This can work on windows as well. > > LOL, and joe-sixpack visits LFS and clicks install ubuntu clone now! What is the lol about? Since when it was impossible to compile cross - plat

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-03-01 Thread George Makrydakis
On Sunday 02 March 2008 00:08:22 Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, 29. Februar 2008 19:45:47 schrieb George Makrydakis: > > On Friday 29 February 2008 17:26:43 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > ... > > For all readers: There are many things you do not know. Choose t

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-01 Thread George Makrydakis
On Saturday 01 March 2008 22:51:30 Dave Wheeler wrote: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 10:15 AM, George Makrydakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This means that the entire design should focus on the fact that you are > > dealing with a database by itself, not a book. > >

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-01 Thread George Makrydakis
On Saturday 01 March 2008 20:21:19 David Jensen wrote: > George Makrydakis wrote: > > Actually, what is necessary is to have a system that deals with > > dependency resolution outside and over any package manager involved in > > this process, for obvious reasons. Transformi

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-01 Thread George Makrydakis
On Saturday 01 March 2008 18:07:59 David Jensen wrote: > TheOldFellow wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:06:41 -0700 > > > > Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What if LFS wasn't in book form anymore. What if it's an interactive > >> program instead. A 100% merge of LFS, BLFS, ALFS, LFS

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-02-29 Thread George Makrydakis
On Saturday 01 March 2008 00:55:04 David Jensen wrote: > George Makrydakis wrote: > > This means that there is always the benefit of the doubt. If you want > > this settled, you know where and how to find me. If this is a > > misunderstanding ,it is a long standing one and

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-02-29 Thread George Makrydakis
On Friday 29 February 2008 23:14:19 Alan Lord wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > ... Lots of stuff about George's crazy email(s). As if you knew what this is all about. You obviously don't. > Jeremy, > > I really don't know what George is on. I didn't plan to respond to his > mail at all. I don't

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-02-29 Thread George Makrydakis
On Friday 29 February 2008 22:26:24 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:45:47PM +0200, George Makrydakis wrote: > > You have some issues, sir. You are doing the same thing to everybody > > else's project you cannot touch. You did the same when you ungraci

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-02-29 Thread George Makrydakis
On Friday 29 February 2008 17:26:43 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:20:25PM +0200, George Makrydakis wrote: > > I would have some heavy commenting to do on the origin of what you are > > proposing here but in anycase, time for this will come and you know it. >

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-02-29 Thread George Makrydakis
tly if they wish to. I would have a lot more to say, but it is neither the place, or the time. What is odreex? A component framework. A library set. A toolkit. A swiss army knife. Expect the release tomorrow at some point. Mailing lists at: http://lists.odreex.org Enjoy George Makrydakis

Re: What next?

2008-02-28 Thread George Makrydakis
On Friday 29 February 2008 00:38:52 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:59:01PM +0200, George Makrydakis wrote: > > On Thursday 28 February 2008 22:33:09 Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > > > c. I was involved in such discussions in the past and I had high hopes &g

Re: What next?

2008-02-28 Thread George Makrydakis
On Thursday 28 February 2008 23:59:01 George Makrydakis wrote: > The pythagorian apophthegm "Not everything can be explained to everyone" > applies to many chapters in the book(s). I will elaborate on why this > statement can be proved wrong if specialized "streams" o

Re: What next?

2008-02-28 Thread George Makrydakis
On Thursday 28 February 2008 22:33:09 Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, at 02:35 George Makrydakis wrote: > [...] > > > 7) Perhaps some of the people majorly involved in this have understood > > that it is time to stop behaving the way they did. If that is the ca

Re: What next?

2008-02-28 Thread George Makrydakis
On Thursday 28 February 2008 05:10:58 Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > Unless I misunderstood Gerard's proposal, that is what he is suggesting. > > Yes, that's in essence what I was saying. Although I don't think it > possible to truly merge everything LFS-related project into one single > project. > > >

Re: What next?

2008-02-28 Thread George Makrydakis
On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:48:47 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > George Makrydakis wrote: > > In what way(s) could you do this that diy-linux and clfs do not do > > already? How is it going to compete with the other two? Or three.. Or > > four... Or Infinity? > > I'

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-02-27 Thread George Makrydakis
On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:06:41 Gerard Beekmans wrote: > What if LFS wasn't in book form anymore. What if it's an interactive > program instead. A 100% merge of LFS, BLFS, ALFS, LFS. This requires a glue point (book, and non book - form). You will have that. But does your LFS actually _exc