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Geekier Than Your Average Linux Geek

That's right, I have gone above and beyond the call of Linux geekiness.

I've written here and there about how I get frustrated with Linux distros, so I use LFS (Linux From Scratch).  For those who don't know, it's all about compiling your system from source code.  By hand.  No package manager.  I've been doing this for 2 or 3 years now and I'm quite happy with it overall.

But now I've crossed even that line of geekiness.  As of a few days ago, I am officially an editor for BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch), the book where you take a basic command line system and actually make it useful, installing desktop environments and such.  Mostly right now I'm working on getting KDE up to date, but I look to do more in the future.

Here's to me! And here's to Linux geeks of all levels of geekiness all around the world!

 P.S. - Everybody go read the Man Pages and keep up with it.  Convert to Linux. Be a Linux geek like all the rest of us.

 Happy LFSer,

rdaniels

Published Sunday, March 09, 2008 2:00 AM by rdaniels
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Comments

 

root said:

Yes

Cool!

Congrats, mate.

March 9, 2008 12:34 PM
 

rdaniels said:

Thanks root!

It is very cool.  It's a project I've been wanting to get involved in for quite a while, but never quite got around to doing it.  But then LFS was in kind of a lull for some time, and I finally made up my mind to just do it.

Taking that first step is always hardest, but now that I'm involved, it's definitely something I can be proud of.

March 9, 2008 4:15 PM
 

ac3raven said:

I use Ubuntu 7.10 on my desktop, Xandros on my EeePC (the desktop mode of the built-in OS, which I don't really like very much), and I've got tons of .iso's in a binder so I can mess around with linus in a host of different ways.

March 10, 2008 2:58 PM
 

lullitux said:

ya, LFS is really great; I still remember I was on a train to Stratford (the little town in Ontario, not UK...) when I was compiling KDE back then...

Now, I use Ubuntu...just because I had no time to compile everything from scratch. I'd wish I have more computers to play with, but a tiny xps is what I have at the moment...

March 27, 2008 9:15 PM
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