[ Thanks to BeOpen
for this link. ]
“I’ve tried Slackware, Red Hat, and Mandrake distributions. I
still haven’t found the perfect distribution. A few weeks
ago (before I got ADSL) I decided to make my own
distribution. I followed both the Stable and Development versions
of the Linux From Scratch documents downloading them from
www.linuxfromscratch.org. I used the Development version to get the
base system going, and I used the Stable version to get all the
Internet-related stuff working.”
“After hours of downloading (with a 33.6 modem) and compiling I
made an important early discovery for building your own
distribution. When you compile a kernel, the configure script
detects the minimum number of dependencies it needs in order to
compile properly. Does compiling it now with fewer dependencies
filled, hinder the software and/or make it less stable than if I’d
filled more dependencies and compiled it again later? I wondered if
everyone who made their own distribution, actually recompiled those
previously compiled packages with more dependencies filled? Anyway,
that’s what I was going to focus on in my distribution to make
things more stable (if, in fact this really does make a
difference).”
“I wanted to focus on implementing the new 2.4.0-test1 kernel,
devfs, and XFree86 4.0. I tried out devfs and I was impressed with
how well it worked but I didn’t try a SCSI emulation. Instead, I
was going to try some SCSI emulation workarounds, I’d read about.
XFree86 4.0 worked pretty well except that when I used the new 3dfx
Banshee DRI module, XFree86 4.0 had a pile of visual bugs. I had to
resort to using XFree86 4.0 without the 3dfx Banshee DRI module
loaded to avoid the bugs. As a consequence, I never got Quake III
Beta working properly with XFree86 4.0’s Mesa drivers either.”