An idea for a new development model

[Alan Lord]

Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:56:45PM +0100, Alan Lord wrote:
>> Perhaps therefore, making the LFS PM friendly and then having a separate 
>> project which would develop and provide on-going maintenance tools would 
>> be a way to look at this... It too would also be a "learning" tool 
>> demonstrating [perhaps] such things scripting or system admin skills 
>> that would enable the whole LFS project to grow.
> 
> This is some of what I had in mind when mentioning the other
> possibilities that such a development model on the LiveCD could effect. I
> wanted to wait and see if someone else would see it too. The LiveCD
> could be at the core of the development, with official build recipes,
> but if we play this right, a new sort of project as you suggest could be
> born out of the LiveCD, one that incorporates the best of LFS and BLFS.
> 
> --
> JH

This is pretty much what I said in the "LiveCD users" thread you started 
on the 18th of last month on the general list...

In fact here's my comments from that.

"I would make it more of a proper LFS project with a "book" and suchlike
so everyone can learn the process of how to build a live CD or make
their own distro that they can copy and give to friends... It is one of
the most widely asked questions on the lists: How do I make my LFS
portable/put it on a cd/put it on another pc blah blah blah...

This would also encourage others to get involved and the project could
then evolve/develop at a faster pace.

Perhaps getting to a Gentoo type scenario where you can learn how to
build a liveCD that will either just install like most distros or
automatically build a new LFS a bit like Gentoo.

 > > Of course any other thoughts or comments are welcome. We really just
 > > need to get an idea of how useful our project is to the community. If
 > > it's too much work to answer the above, just a short reply saying you
 > > use the CD would be helpful, too.
 > >

In a way, the whole LFS(all projects within the umbrella) thing is made
up of many transient users/contributors. I have used and learned from
LFS for many, many years now (my LFS ID is 216) but I now find myself
using Ubuntu as my main desktop system because it works painlessly and
upgrades are automatic. I guess many others will migrate like this. But
I know how to fix it when things go wrong and how to install packages
that aren't pre "deb'ed"...

I still feel a great empathy towards the project and still read the
lists almost daily. I don't build LFS much now though... It has done
it's job  :-)
"