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rdaniels

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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About rdaniels

Mostly interested in computer software, especially operating systems and networking. I enjoy learning about the architecture, design, and protocols of these. I'm especially interested in Linux, which I love to use, but I also try to keep updated on happenings in the BSD and Solaris realms. Never been terribly interesting in hardware. The way I see it, hardware just sits there until software tells it to do something. Boring! (To those who like hardware, I'm grateful to you. Without people like you, my software wouldn't have anything to boss around!) Currently studying for a career in network adminstration, plan to also study programming and operating systems.

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