On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Gerard Beekmans -
ger...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
>
>> What I wish more of the experienced folks would do is reveal the
>> decisions they made as they built their latest system. It could be an
>> excellent education for those of us looking for well thought out
>
> What I wish more of the experienced folks would do is reveal the
> decisions they made as they built their latest system. It could be an
> excellent education for those of us looking for well thought out
> designs.
Entire book can be written on such subjects. The ensuing "wall of text"
on a m
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Gerard Beekmans -
ger...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
>
> some very enlightening thoughts
>
> Having said all of that, I personally like separate partitions for
> different types of data. I may or may not implement that setup on the
> new LFS server. I'm at least con
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
> Lookup the bumblebee fiasco on google,
> The bumble devs had a line rm -rf /usr /lib in a install script
> so you installed the app and your /usr was gone.
>
Are you seriously saying this is a reason to split things between /bin and
/usr/bin?
Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
> You mean from the moment GRUB (or whatever) starts running to the login
> prompt of some sort right?
I really don't have any control over the 3-4 seconds used for BIOS
initialization after the power on switch, so no, I didn't count that.
-- Bruce
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>On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:54:05 -0600
>Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Do we need systemd, a complex compiled system, to boot? My LFS boots
> in 8 seconds now. Is that too long?
You mean from the moment GRUB (or whatever) starts running to the login
prompt of some sort right?
(Man writes a long mail in wh
I do not want to roll back 40 years of progress. Actually, I was
thinking about this last night. I started programming 47 years ago. My
first system was one where I learned to punch binary on an 80 column
card. The mass storage device was a card punch. We learned how to use
a card sorter.
On Monday 30 January 2012 07:40:11 pm Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> > Just don't fall into change for the sake of change.
>
> Good point.
>
> > Lookup the bumblebee fiasco on google,
> > The bumble devs had a line rm -rf /usr /lib in a install
> > script so you installed the app and your /usr was gon
> Just don't fall into change for the sake of change.
>
Good point.
>
> Lookup the bumblebee fiasco on google,
> The bumble devs had a line rm -rf /usr /lib in a install script
> so you installed the app and your /usr was gone.
>
> Do you really want everything in /usr?
>
A typo is a typo. Say
On Monday 30 January 2012 06:26:52 pm Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> > I think this concept is one of all/most the old farts are moving on...to
> > be taken over by the youngens who are now thinking that they are the
> > masters when thye haven't a clue for history.
> >
> > I will take the ways of unix
> I think this concept is one of all/most the old farts are moving on...to be
> taken over by the youngens who are now thinking that they are the masters
> when thye haven't a clue for history.
>
> I will take the ways of unix from the 70's, It is that way for many _good_
> reasons.
Yes, you're
Baho Utot wrote:
> The only thing that I would like see "added" to LFS is lvm/raid/encrypted
> root systems and maybe KVM. I think everything is the more or less covered.
LVM has been in BLFS for about 10 days and KVM went in last night.
-- Bruce
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On Monday 30 January 2012 12:35:54 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Baho Utot wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 January 2012 10:46:19 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >> Sigh.
> >>
> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0OTY
> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
> >>
Baho Utot wrote:
>
> On Sunday 29 January 2012 10:46:19 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Sigh.
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0OTY
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
>>
>>-- Bruce
>
> I believe LFS is now working in this direction???
>On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:46:19 -0600
>Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> Sigh.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0OTY
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
>
>-- Bruce
I have to say I find this hilarious.
As I was reading the freedesktop page,
On Sunday 29 January 2012 10:46:19 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Sigh.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0OTY
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
>
>-- Bruce
I believe LFS is now working in this direction
Myth #8: The /usr merge wi
Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Sigh.
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0OTY
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
>
> I like the reply (on the freedesktop page) to myth #2.
>
>> Myth #2: Fedora is the only Linux distribu
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Sigh.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0OTY
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
I like the reply (on the freedesktop page) to myth #2.
> Myth #2: Fedora is the only Linux distribution to implement the /usr
> mer
Sigh.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0OTY
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
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