Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-25 Thread Karel Kulhavy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/24/2008 03:05:38 AM: Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Hey all, > > The LFS project is almost nine years old. LFS 1.0 was released on > December 16, 1999. That was the year I had moved to Canada, before my > immigration was even finalized. Earlier that year I started on the

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-25 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> it would be great for some college to offer a class centered around LFS > - start with a box full of parts and the LFS LiveCD at the beginning of > the semester and end up with a LAMP server at the end, all built from > source. You know, it's done already. Over the years quite a few universit

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-25 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> But, there is a definite "lull" in the community currently as I am sure > you will be aware. As a personal observation, I think the project needs > to go back to it's roots and emphasise the educational angle more All the points you brought up, as well as others, are certainly valid. I agree

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-24 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:50 AM, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:17:16 -0700 > Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ey all, > > > > The LFS project is almost nine years old. LFS 1.0 was released on > > December 16, 1999. That was the year I had move

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-24 Thread TheOldFellow
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:17:16 -0700 Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ey all, > > The LFS project is almost nine years old. LFS 1.0 was released on > December 16, 1999. That was the year I had moved to Canada, before my > immigration was even finalized. Earlier that year I started on

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-24 Thread Robert Daniels
Happy birthday to LFS! This is a wonderful project, one of the two most important projects to me (the other being KDE). This is really how I learned linux about 4 years ago. I tried a couple distros for about a month, and saw a lot of potential, but there was always something that seemed wron

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-23 Thread George Boudreau
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Hey all, > > The LFS project is almost nine years old. LFS 1.0 was released on > December 16, 1999. That was the year I had moved to Canada, before my > immigration was even finalized. Earlier that year I started on the LFS > project. > > The details are a bit fuzzy be

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-23 Thread Steve Prior
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > The LFS project is almost nine years old. LFS 1.0 was released on > December 16, 1999. That was the year I had moved to Canada, before my > immigration was even finalized. Earlier that year I started on the LFS > project. Gerard, I came across and built my first LFS sy

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-23 Thread Valter Douglas LisbĂ´a Jr.
On Saturday 23 February 2008 14:33:27 Gerard Beekmans wrote: > (Second sending. Mailman suffered a problem as I was sending this out. > It may have gone out more than once) > > Hey all, > > The LFS project is almost nine years old. LFS 1.0 was released on > December 16, 1999. That was the year I ha

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alan Lord wrote: > There is a virtually unlimited path for the direction/coverage of the > LFS project as a whole, but it needs more promotion. It makes me sad to > see how quiet these lists are right now. I agree with your sentiments, but am low on ideas, or at least, on the energy needed at p

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-23 Thread Alan Lord
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > That makes LFS nine years old this month. It still boggles my mind some > days that LFS grew into what it has. > > Ciao! > > Gerard Hi Gerard, For me, this has been one of the most important Open Source projects ever. It got me interested and excited, and taught me

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-23 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Samstag, 23. Februar 2008 18:33:27 schrieb Gerard Beekmans: > (Second sending. Mailman suffered a problem as I was sending this out. > It may have gone out more than once) > > Hey all, > > The LFS project is almost nine years old. LFS 1.0 was released on > December 16, 1999. That was the year I