Graham Trott wrote:
On Saturday 15 May 2004 20:45, BenEBoy wrote:
And when you do, try linux from scratch on your back up machine. I learnt more in the 6 months I was running LFS than I have done previously or since (and after seeing the multitude of binaries on debian, which I haven't got a clue what most of them do I feel the slight urge to go back to it)
BenE
Already been there - well partway at least. The current release isn't kernel 2.6 though, so I'll wait for version 6. Though maybe I won't; just as I don't do my own car maintenance I feel that for me, getting that intimate with Linux isn't really necessary. I just want a bit more control than is offered by SuSE or Mandrake, and some better justification for the ADSL line here that sits idle most of the time.
version 6? I didn't know version 5 was out. While I remember, I've been meaning to ask a LFS related queston for ages...
The reason I got rid of it and installed debian was because it was too much hassle trying to keep packages up to date (security-wise). I came up with the idea of making a script that will keep the versions of currently installed software in a file (or a database or whatever) and ftp into the appropriate servers and compare the version numbers as a chron job. I abandoned that as being a nasty hack of the highest degree. Can anyone suggest another solution?