Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-10-01 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As those of you who have been following ticket #2205 have already seen, DJ & > Randy have been doing stirling work in getting some much needed life injected > back into the LFS book. Although they've had co

LFS 64bit - thoughts

2008-10-01 Thread Nathan Coulson
I noticed one person mentioning 64bit LFS on a previous post. It made me wonder how LFS may address this in the future. On my own, I took the multilib plunge about 6 months ago. (sortof a hodgepodge of LFS's buildsystem, and a few occassional CLFS patch's). I had the following ideals in mind in

Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-10-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:02:45PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Actually, just for the record, I'm a newbie in LFS compared > > to Ken. He's overestimating my time here. I remember my first > > post to an LFS list and was drilled my an ex-member (who I > > won't name) fo

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-10-01 Thread DJ Lucas
Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:03:00PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > >> Other packages in the base LFS utilize BDB. They may or may not work >> with GDBM so I'll be looking into that as soon as we get updated to >> reasonable revisions of all installed 'base' software. My questi

New experimental book

2008-10-01 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, I'd like to know the difference between the contents of trunk/BOOK and the new experimental book. Is new experimental more unstable? Where is it downloadable? To see this changes, it'll be necessary to wait for updates in trunk/BOOK? So far I only saw stylesheets which changed. Thanks for

Re: New experimental book

2008-10-01 Thread DJ Lucas
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know the difference between the contents of trunk/BOOK and the > new experimental book. Is new experimental more unstable? Where is it > downloadable? To see this changes, it'll be necessary to wait for updates in > trunk/BOOK? So far I only saw

Re: LFS 64bit - thoughts

2008-10-01 Thread DJ Lucas
Nathan Coulson wrote: > I noticed one person mentioning 64bit LFS on a previous post. It made > me wonder how LFS may address this in the future. > Actually, it's been mentioned a few times in the past week. > On my own, I took the multilib plunge about 6 months ago. (sortof a > hodgepodge of

Re: New experimental book

2008-10-01 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: > Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to know the difference between the contents of trunk/BOOK and the >> new experimental book. Is new experimental more unstable? Where is it >> downloadable? To see this changes, it'll be necessary to wait for updates in >>

Re: LFS 64bit - thoughts

2008-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > Bruce, Randy, ya'll got anything to add? No, not really. On a LUG list I read we just had a long discussion about problems on guy had getting his wireless to work with ndis wrapper. He was using Ubuntu64 and never could get it to work. When he went to Ubuntu32, it was fin