Re: divx avi's

[Jack Browning <spaminacan@charter.net>]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

> > BTW, just for kicks, tried a Gentoo install (from a stage 1 tarball :)) a
> > couple weeks back.  Now, that's living on the edge...
>
> Oh, yeah. That's the good stuff. Nothing like Linux From Scratch NG, aka Gentoo.
>
> I don't think Joe Surfer or Amy Broadband will ever "feel the love" or appreciate
> the sublime pleasure from watching their very own copy of
> free-to-do-as-you-please
> source code compile away for a day or two.
>
> Gentoo: It's the kind of "hand job" only a geek could love.

It's really not a bad concept, and, in theory, it should work. The devil
is in the details, though. The code base for Linux just isn't standardized
enough to run everything through a compiler and expect the end result to
work together. And, some guys who write Linux apps seem to revel in being
contrarian: Jorge Schilling and the author(s) of util-linux come
immediately to mind. I suppose that's what gives Linux its, um, charm.

The thing I like about Slack is that its packages are built from shell
scripts. That makes custom configuration pretty transparent. When a new
release comes out, I recompile some key packages for my arch at -O3 and
things really fly. Best of both worlds.

BTW, I built an LFS system once, too. Doing it is a good way to learn some
low-level system skills, and the LFS doc is valuable in its own right.

JEB

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* Jack Browning                 mojohand@charter.net *
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